Tiny island

Just behind Teop Island, there is a very small, uninhabited island. There’s not much there other than some trees and the rocky, coral ground.

The rough coral ground:

When the tide is low, it is possible to walk/wade there from Teop Island. Here are a series of photos showing the little island as we progressively got closer to it:

Finally, as we arrived at the island, we could look back and see Teop Island with the larger Bougainville island and mountains in the background. Nice view.

Trip to Teabes

We visited a village area called Teabes during our last village stay. This is our village grandpa’s home village, so it was nice to see where he used to live and meet some more Teop people.

We travelled by motor boat and on the way we passed these tiny, uninhabited, rocky islands, which we can always see from Hiovabon. They looked quite photogenic as we passed.

There was lovely white sand beaches at Teabes.

When you go to Teabes by motor boat, you travel through some mangroves to get there. They had some cool reflections in the still water.

Heading out of the mangroves as we leave Teabes:

Canoe trip to tropical island (post by Bill & Liz)

While we were staying at Jais Aben, we hired a canoe for half a day and we went paddling in the tropical waters around the resort. Liz sat like a queen in the middle, while Bill and Julie paddled the canoe. We canoed to a deserted tropical island and sat on the beach and swam in the warm water.

Here are photos of Bill and Julie paddling.

Here’s the view from the island with our canoe.

Here we are all sitting on the canoe.

And finally, the little island that we went to.

Dinner on the beach

Well, although some people went back to the main island to get some food and pots, etc, our plates came from the bush!

Here are some pictures of our evening picnic on the island we visited for the day:

Easter holiday

How does a holiday on a tropical island where you don't have to cook or wash dishes sound? Sounds great, but expensive! Well, that is what I just had, for a grand total of $45! And $32 of that was my transport there and back!

A group of 11 of us from Ukarumpa went down to Madang for the weekend then onto a motor dinghy which took us to an island, Riwo Island. One of our PNG friends has relatives in the village there, so that helped. We stayed in a Western style house and the people cooked for us. I shared a double mattress and single mosquito net with another girl.

We had a self-flushing toilet! It was a little hut built over the sea, so the sea washed everything away. The hole was HUGE though! If I slipped I could have fit down and landed on the rocks below, it was rather scary!

Yesterday we visited another island for the day and ate our dinner there. It was after dark when we decided to leave. We headed off on two canoes, about 8 or 9 people on each canoe. The canoe I was on didn't steady after everyone got on and it rocked from side to side taking on water each time until we capsized and ended up in the water! We weren't very far from the shore as we had only just left, so we swam back to shore. The canoes were overloaded and that's why we capsized and the other one nearly did - they saw us and then jumped out of their canoe before it completely went over.

My camera was okay because I had it in an airtight bag thankfully. At about the time we capsized, the motor dingy came along, so we spread out among the three boats to go back. We lost a pot, two knives and a serving spoon to the water, but this morning some people went out there and they recovered the pot, spoon and one knife, so that was good.

Here are some pictures of my weekend. I might add more later when I get some photos off my friends' cameras.

My bed with canopy:

The house we stayed in:

Our dinner:

Tropical island paradise:

Self-portrait:

This is the canoe that we overloaded with about 8 people and capsized: