Birdlife
around a full Lake Toba in full swing
1. Lake Toba is full
Today, at the end of the dry season Lake
Toba is almost full, so when you want to see more of Lake Toba than any other
tourist has seen, this is the time to come to Lake Toba. It is of course a
Contradictio in Terminus that Lake Toba is full at the end of the dry season.
But what is a contradictio in terminus in this age of climate change ?. When is
Lake Toba full ?. In my opinion Lake Toba is more or less full when the harbour
in Tiga Raja, the place where you board the ferry to Tuk Tuk in Parapat, is
flooded. Not just a few centimeters but halfway up to your knees.
2. How come Lake Toba is full ?
Don’t you ask me, I did not do it and
normally I am not pissing in it. So, let’s look at what we know. Just a year
ago the water level of Lake Toba was exactly one meter below the current water
level. How do I know, I just happened to measure it. How much water is that?.
Let’s take the surface area of Lake Toba as given in the introduction of this
website as 1265 km 2 . So with 1 m rise in water level we are
talking of 1.26 km 3 more water. I leave it to you to figure out how
many liters we are talking and after that think in terms of bottles of beer
which come in 0.6 liter bottles in Tuk Tuk. For sure we could organize a first
class piss-up with that.
Reportedly, the rainy season in Tuk Tuk
starts the first of November and lasts till the 30 th of April. Consequently,
the dry season starts the first of May and ends October 31. Now let’s look at
some data. Total rainfall in Tuk Tuk from November 1, 2007 till April 30, 2008
was 1007 mm and from May 1, 2008, till October 31, 2008 exactly 1047 mm. How do
I know, I just happened to measure it. So much for the wet season and the dry
season, especially when you think of February 2008, in the wet season, with 63
mm and of August 2008, in the dry season, with 469 mm. Of course you can argue
that what has been measured in Tuk Tuk is not representative for Samosir, Tomok,
Ambarita, Simanindo, Parapat, Balige, Porsea, Pangururan or Barastagi. Please
provide me the data you have measured on
a day to day basis in one of these places or any other relevant place and we
can start doing some correlation exercises.
So my simple question is: if we have a
downpour of 1007 mm in the wet season and of 1045 mm in the dry season, which
adds up to 2 m, why is the water level rise in Lake Toba only 1 m ?. Any help
in this regard will be appreciated.
3. The fucking bird season
As I said before, why would you come to
enjoy the birdlife around Lake Toba if you don’t know the difference between a
duck and a dove. For those amongst you who still like to watch strange and
unknown birds, now from the first of November to the end of December is the
time to come to Tuk Tuk, Lake Toba. I am writing this on the first of November
having now for three days observed that the bird fucking season is on. Whether
it is a migrating, a singing, a swimming, a walking, a crawling, a creeping, a
sitting or a flying bird, it’s fucking all over the place and this season will
last for about three weeks, depending on which bird is fucking his or his
friends mate. Birds which come as chickens, domesticated ducks and turkey’s and
any other strange ducks are excluded from the afore. Of course the real bird
watchers know that birds don’t fuck as usual but have their own ways, so maybe I
should have said it’s the start of the bird mating season.
Of course it can be interesting to check
why these birds are starting just about today. The answer is quite simple. The
stupid birds have not yet been informed on the climate change and as such still
think that the rainy season is about to start tomorrow. The bird trick is to do
the mating in the first weeks of November. It than takes about 3 to 4 days
before the eggs are being put in place, sometimes also referred to as nest, and after 19 to 21 days the little ones are
breaking the eggs. Just before that the rains start and ‘the worms’ come out,
so the bird expectation is that there will be a lot to eat for the youngsters and
every body will live long and happily there after.
For me, I am still trying to figure out how
these bloody birds know that today is about the first of November. Any help in
this will also be appreciated.
Therefore, come and join the fun in Tuk
Tuk, also strange birds are welcome, as with the birds we are celebrating the
beginning of a new generation of birds which hopefully will be around for some
time to lure professional bird watchers and ornithologists to Tuk Tuk to
categorize them properly and give them their good names.
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