Bush Tucker

My mate (whose just arrived from Brissy) and I went bush with some locals and tried living of the land, the way they do it - although I have not made any attempt to get pics of our eating the bush tucker for various excuses you would give no never mind, but we did enjoy ourselves.....................

The tractor ride (because the roads only accessible by tractor and not a 4WD landcruiser [who said that!!]):


On the way we saw a big group of local men pulling three canoes down 5km to the main Aramia river (thats quite a distance to cover, come to think of it)



















On this day our local boys were lucky to have a Papuan Black snake which was 1.5m long and very very dead:

















Then they came across a goanna, not so huge they said but would provide substantial protein for lunch,......... yeah right!!!

Everything eventually got cooked (sago and rice included) and layed out -

Then everyone went straight into eat.........................................hungry we all were! who says no...........

After that we all packed on the tractor and rode down to camp, shower, real food and sleeeeeep.



















That's when I started feeling funny and thought I was going colour blind and checked, but it was no joke - I was colour blind (you seeing the same????)

AAaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Balimo, Western Province

Recently I went down river to Balimo to pick up some friends coming in from Port Moresby on the regular Airlines PNG flight. As always in this part of the country, rain - although the locals say is seasonal, is like a forever thing for a non local like me. To me rain just doesnt stop...................

Balimo airstrip like most third level airstrip (what does that rating mean, I have no idea) does not have a terminal so [passenger arriving or departing (with their luggage/ belongings) can be either dry or wet - whichever the case at the time maybe.

Since the parking bay is about 50 meters over to the other side from the road that leads to town - one has to walk across the airstrip itself (from the road) to meet the plane and its passengers. Imagine doing this whilst it is raining.

Good thing it was not raining at the time my mates came in so although they looked a bit sheepishly shivery it was not at all bad and they did smile!!!!

It was a good thing we already had a good relationship with the Local Government Administration so we got get a ride to Balimo town which is 5km from the airstrip; like driving down river but by vehicle and along the way you do get to have a lot of curious onlookers always wanting to get the first glimps of the new faces in town; tsh, tsh -