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With gratitude to all participating nomads, and especially to Theun Karelse of Urban Edibles Amsterdam who presented his 'augmented foraging' app Boskoi, to Pieter Bol,co-auteur of the book Biological Globalisation for their input, and to Titus for the KML file.
A satellite image of Westraven from April 2005, what is at current the most enigmatic cryptoforest of the several we visisited, is here a barren pockmarked field scarred by the petro-chemical complex. The yellow line shows our path as recorded by GPS. Download the KML file.
Unsuspected habitation, nobody was home.
A tableaux of trees and toilet paper, pictures of the actual turd nearby the tent are available. Once upon a time agriculture started from such dump heaps.
Gonzo botany, admiring the biodiversity, looking for edible species.
Nomads walking in line, opening a trail through a nettle-infested pre-forest.
A light trail remains, to quote William Burrough, "It's not important to live, it's important to travel."
Call in the Michelin-starred chefs: rocket salad, with a delicious bitter taste can be harvested near many major roads.
This barely visible half-trodden path leads into a dark forest.
What remains of the shelter of a former occupant of the crypto-forests, waste suggests a construction date of summer 2005.
There is a path there, through the dense vegetation, the weather was Amazonian too, hot and humid. Many mosquitos.
Human artefacts are slowly being devoured by the green unwashed.
The crypto-forest reclaims the cobbled street.
A swamp with a view.
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