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My family and I just relocated to Spring from Portland, Oregon last summer. I was a GPAS member while I lived there, and recently sent in my ap. and dues for the HAS. Then I found this forum, so it'll take me a little reading to get caught up to everyones posts here. but I am looking forward to seeing what's going on.
I lived in PDX for 16 years and while there started a local Killie club called NW Killies that quickly grew into the largest and strongest club of it's kind on the west coast. We ended up sponsoring the "West Coast Weekend" Killie event for 7 years and our club recently hosted the AKA National Convention. I was president of that club for it's initial 10 tens until, with the great crash of 2008, my residential home building business dried up and I decided it was time to shift gears and follow my passion for things aquatic overseas to the Peruvian Amazon.
Over the last 2 years I have started a new business called WildPERU based in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. This year, we decided to pull up stakes in PDX and move to Houston so that my "commute" from here to the jungle was made shorter and less costly, and so that we can live in a place where summer lasts longer the 10 weeks! So here we are! :O)
As of this summer we are finally finished with the approval process and are now legal Peruvian exporters! We will be doing some test shipments into IAH over the next few weeks to our new facility in Spring, and then I will return to S.A. to start collecting with clients in January through until early March. This tour will include Peru , Bolivia and Colombia.
Wildperu offers expedition outfitting for Fish Collection, Photography/Video-graphy, Herpetology groups; Birders and Butterfly collectors. We also like to work with Universities, Zoos and members of Academia looking for special expedition logistical help and/or to locate special display animals. We also import ornamental fishes and provide logistical help to importers seeking assistance on the import side. Here is a calendar of upcoming Wildperu expeditions for 2012.
January 20th, 2012 Madre de Dios, Peru. Wet Season Annual Killies 10 days
February 1st, 2012 Rio Huallaga tributaries, Yurimaguas, Peru 10 days
February 26th, 2012 Colombia!!!! Schedule to be determined, 14 days
March 20th 2012 Sierra Leone 14 days
May 2012 Loreto, Peru. Yurimaguas- Iquitos 14 days
June 2012 Madre de Dios, Peru Unexplored River, 1st collecting Expedition 10 days
August, 2012 Puno, Peru High altitude lakes in the mountains north of Lake Titicaca, searching for Orestias fishes. 14 days.
October 2012, Sarawak!!! 14-17 days, due to scheduling conflicts we were forced to reschedule this trip for 2012.
There are still openings left for all of these trips. Some are limited! So if you see something you want to know more about, please either PM me, message me on Facebook at wildperu, or shoot me an email. If you are an HAS member, Wildperu will be extending member discounts on all trips.
I am also available to give talks on all our doings for club meetings.
I am looking forward to the January HAS meeting where I can meet some of you. In the meanwhile, best wishes to everyone for a safe Holiday season and a prosperous 2012!!!
My family and I just relocated to Spring from Portland, Oregon last summer. I was a GPAS member while I lived there, and recently sent in my ap. and dues for the HAS. Then I found this forum, so it'll take me a little reading to get caught up to everyones posts here. but I am looking forward to seeing what's going on.
I lived in PDX for 16 years and while there started a local Killie club called NW Killies that quickly grew into the largest and strongest club of it's kind on the west coast. We ended up sponsoring the "West Coast Weekend" Killie event for 7 years and our club recently hosted the AKA National Convention. I was president of that club for it's initial 10 tens until, with the great crash of 2008, my residential home building business dried up and I decided it was time to shift gears and follow my passion for things aquatic overseas to the Peruvian Amazon.
Over the last 2 years I have started a new business called WildPERU based in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. This year, we decided to pull up stakes in PDX and move to Houston so that my "commute" from here to the jungle was made shorter and less costly, and so that we can live in a place where summer lasts longer the 10 weeks! So here we are! :O)
As of this summer we are finally finished with the approval process and are now legal Peruvian exporters! We will be doing some test shipments into IAH over the next few weeks to our new facility in Spring, and then I will return to S.A. to start collecting with clients in January through until early March. This tour will include Peru , Bolivia and Colombia.
Wildperu offers expedition outfitting for Fish Collection, Photography/Video-graphy, Herpetology groups; Birders and Butterfly collectors. We also like to work with Universities, Zoos and members of Academia looking for special expedition logistical help and/or to locate special display animals. We also import ornamental fishes and provide logistical help to importers seeking assistance on the import side. Here is a calendar of upcoming Wildperu expeditions for 2012.
January 20th, 2012 Madre de Dios, Peru. Wet Season Annual Killies 10 days
February 1st, 2012 Rio Huallaga tributaries, Yurimaguas, Peru 10 days
February 26th, 2012 Colombia!!!! Schedule to be determined, 14 days
March 20th 2012 Sierra Leone 14 days
May 2012 Loreto, Peru. Yurimaguas- Iquitos 14 days
June 2012 Madre de Dios, Peru Unexplored River, 1st collecting Expedition 10 days
August, 2012 Puno, Peru High altitude lakes in the mountains north of Lake Titicaca, searching for Orestias fishes. 14 days.
October 2012, Sarawak!!! 14-17 days, due to scheduling conflicts we were forced to reschedule this trip for 2012.
There are still openings left for all of these trips. Some are limited! So if you see something you want to know more about, please either PM me, message me on Facebook at wildperu, or shoot me an email. If you are an HAS member, Wildperu will be extending member discounts on all trips.
I am also available to give talks on all our doings for club meetings.
I am looking forward to the January HAS meeting where I can meet some of you. In the meanwhile, best wishes to everyone for a safe Holiday season and a prosperous 2012!!!
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