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<font color='#0000FF'>Oct 4th 3pm. Leave Tampa Florida - Dallas -LA- Auckland NZ- Brisbaine- Cairnes Oct 6th 5pm. As soon as we arrive at the hotel into the pool for a sunset dip Haaaaaa. Then I look up into the sky and there is a huge black bird and then another and another soon there are hundreds flying over the hotel. I later find out they are flying fox ( bats ).
The next three days are spent doing the usual tourist type stuff rain forest, roo's, koala bears etc.
Oct 10th 5am Cairns - Port Moresby PNG, delayed-delayed delayed after five hours we are of and the delay is no big thing we had a long lay over Port Moresby and can still make the conection.
Port Moresby - Hoskins on the Island of New Britain, delayed-delayed-delayed CANCELED as it is now dark and there are no landing lights at Hoskins %$#@&^%$.
We are told we are to be put up in a hotel for the night and a special flight put on at 4:30 am. The hotel (skyways) was out of this world perched on a hillside with a magnificent view overlooking the airport. All the wood in the rooms were mahogony and to get to the dinneing area you had to go up a rope bridge to the top of the hill where eating was outdoors around a swimming pool and the view even better.
Oct 11th 4:30am flight delayed-delayed-delayed, after what seemed like an eternity we were of arriving at Walindi plantation 20 hours late all I could think was I had lost a days diving, but whilest having a welcome drink at the main house Dale the dive supervisor asked us if we would like to dive that afternoon "YES". We were told our bags were at our rooms and to go and put our dive gear on the porch then come back to the maine house, this done we hand-not finshed our coke when Dale told us "your gear is on the boat go when ever your ready". Our first dive site (Susans ridge) was only a five min boat ride, giant stride of the back and YES YES YES I have died and gone to heaven, it was like diving in a continuously changing kaleidoscope of colour and movement viz 100 + temp 87 I only wore speedos for my dives.
To be continued
David
<font color='#0000FF'>Oct 4th 3pm. Leave Tampa Florida - Dallas -LA- Auckland NZ- Brisbaine- Cairnes Oct 6th 5pm. As soon as we arrive at the hotel into the pool for a sunset dip Haaaaaa. Then I look up into the sky and there is a huge black bird and then another and another soon there are hundreds flying over the hotel. I later find out they are flying fox ( bats ).
The next three days are spent doing the usual tourist type stuff rain forest, roo's, koala bears etc.
Oct 10th 5am Cairns - Port Moresby PNG, delayed-delayed delayed after five hours we are of and the delay is no big thing we had a long lay over Port Moresby and can still make the conection.
Port Moresby - Hoskins on the Island of New Britain, delayed-delayed-delayed CANCELED as it is now dark and there are no landing lights at Hoskins %$#@&^%$.
We are told we are to be put up in a hotel for the night and a special flight put on at 4:30 am. The hotel (skyways) was out of this world perched on a hillside with a magnificent view overlooking the airport. All the wood in the rooms were mahogony and to get to the dinneing area you had to go up a rope bridge to the top of the hill where eating was outdoors around a swimming pool and the view even better.
Oct 11th 4:30am flight delayed-delayed-delayed, after what seemed like an eternity we were of arriving at Walindi plantation 20 hours late all I could think was I had lost a days diving, but whilest having a welcome drink at the main house Dale the dive supervisor asked us if we would like to dive that afternoon "YES". We were told our bags were at our rooms and to go and put our dive gear on the porch then come back to the maine house, this done we hand-not finshed our coke when Dale told us "your gear is on the boat go when ever your ready". Our first dive site (Susans ridge) was only a five min boat ride, giant stride of the back and YES YES YES I have died and gone to heaven, it was like diving in a continuously changing kaleidoscope of colour and movement viz 100 + temp 87 I only wore speedos for my dives.
To be continued
David