2008: Best of PNG Photos
- Sago being prepared for a celebration on Loupom Island, Amazon Bay.
- Fishing in Amazon Bay.
- Kids collecting sea cucumber from the reef at low tide.
- Cracking a coconut while crossing a calm Orangerie Bay.
- View from Bona Bona Island across Orangerie Bay.
- I stayed with a family at Eagle Point, Five Bays.
- Paul Aisa with a cus cus he speared.
- I was often being fed even though I had my own supplies.
- The knee infection erupts.
- A future sea kayaker sizes up the Hope and Grace.
- Not in good shape before the rescue boat arrived.
- Feeling a little better after Jack cooled me down. My temperature was up and down from the infection.
- Jack Muia looks after me before the rescue boat arrives.
- Releif! The lads help me to the boat for the bumpy trip to hospital in Alotau.
- With minor surgery and plenty of antibiotics I'm on the mend, Alotau Hospital.
- The dressing comes off for the first time after three days. It's not pretty!
- After moving to Masurina Lodge to continue recovering, Dominic comes to see how I'm doing.
- A knee x-ray clears me of any deeper infection and means I'm nearly ready to get back on the water.
- First aid kit.
- Chris Abel from Masurina Lodge drives me back to the water where I belong!
- The 'Saipoi' lands near East Cape having sailed from Normamby Island.
- The only foreign vessel I spotted outside the recognised ports was Triton, an American owned luxury yacht (and helicopter- wow).
- A puppy finds refuge in the tent vestibule for the night.
- John helps me build a sail out of driftwood, tarp, fishing line and elastoplast.
- The sail survived almost 2000km before being smashed in a shoebreak.
- I ran into Triton a second time and went aboard for a closer look.
- Outrigger canoes are widely used for fishing and transport in PNG.
- A small coral atoll makes a cosy camp.
- This turtle landed to lay eggs next to the kayak.
- Bauwame is a small village near Tufi.
- Aiden invited me to stay at his house at Bauwame.
- It took a team effort to carry the kayak up the steep fiords near Tufi.
- Spanish mackerel courtesy of Simon at Tufi Dive Resort.
- A school up the Musa River was wiped out by floods in 2007.
- Youngsters traverse the Musa River.
- Just for a change I take a ride in an outrigger in the beautiful Tufi fiords.
- Locally made jewellery is for sale to tourists from the Tufi Dive Resort.
- Villagers on their way home from making processing sago find me camped on the beach.
- Sailing canoes bring people home from a trading trip to Oro Bay.
- Stripping coconut meat is repetitive work in the village.
- Sail up but not much wind!
- Good result form fishing on the reef.
- Camped on an island that is used by local villagers on extended fishing trips.
- Lasanga Island- looking for bananas!
- Lasanga Island landing.
- Alu shows me to an island to camp- Morobe Province.
- These lads kept watch over my beach camp near Bukawa.
- Mange village friends.
- Lady Amaring Zurecnuoc opens her home to me in Finschhafen.
- Running away from the bearded kayaker!
- The bearded kayaker!
- Family from Malasanga keeping me company.
- Hukup gave me a cermonial dancing belt made of cowrie shells before shoving me out to sea once again.
- Resupply at Madang.
- Staying connected through satellite phone and computer.
- Manam Island smokes in the distance.
- Manam Island erupted in December 2004 causing massive disruption and evacuation.
- Children play at sunset on Manam Island.
- UFO- Unidentified Floating Object.
- Biem Island Primary School.
- Canoe under construction on Biem Island.
- Wie Island- part of the Schouten Island Group off the Sepik coast.
- Tangbwal Dance on Vokeo Island.
- Bernard Dalle Gagin- Chief and primary school teacher, Dap village, Vokeo Island.
- Kairiru Island near Wewak.
- St John Station is now run as a farm on Kairuru Island by Graham and Irene Lynch.
- Students at St Xaviers High School, Kairuru Island.
- Fred shows me a thing or two about cocoa pods.
- Clearing grass from the coconut plantation- hot work.
- Broken sunglasses!
- Dinghy's are a common way to move between villages and provincial towns.
- I loved stopping to talk to fishermen while paddling past villages.
- Breakfast in the dark before the last days paddling.
- The last day into Vanimo- after 2300km my hands were showing the wear.