Mijts Blog

Couple of photos of the QM 2 that arrived in Rabaul Harbour this morning. This photo taken from down at the harbour. And this photo taken from the lookout near the Volcano Observatory.

We took Stephanie and the children out to the village on Sunday – and a few wantoks in the back! Stephanie has built a house in the village – quite an achievement given their low income. All the wood frame was cut from the bush with a chainsaw and then ‘milled’ with a chainsaw too […]

If you have read earlier posts, you will know that I already have quite a collection of baskets and bilums! However, when I discovered my young golf caddy liked to make bilums, I just had to have one more!! Last week, after golf on Wednesday I took him to one of the Trade stores to […]

A few weeks ago the Ralum (Kokopo) Golf Club had it’s 50th birthday. Having been founded in 1961, the theme for the night was ‘the 60’s. We decided to go to the dinner/dance with some friends. I vowed and declared I wasn’t ‘dressing up’ but when the other couples talked about buying wigs, finding suitable […]

Where else could you do this? Playing golf and observed the many little outrigger boats fishing just off the course shoreline – beautiful calm seas! This is the setting – although taken some time ago and no boats on that day (also volcano not puffing at the moment!). Got back to the Clubhouse only to […]

The first couple of years we were in PNG I filled in time by doing some volunteer work in a couple of schools – some Year 10 English and making cards at a Primary School. This year I decided to do something a bit different. I set up ‘Maria’s School’ – more like an avenue […]

It has been ages since we posted here – just busy with our everyday lives in PNG!! Our nearby volcano has been very quiet for over a year – often referred to as ‘volcano dead now’!. Well she certainly came alive again this week – a few big bangs and plenty of ash coming out […]

Recently we visited San Francisco for 3 weeks – our fourth trip to this city. This time we stayed at a Marriott Residence Inn at San Mateo – just a 10 minute drive to Ben and Sarah’s place at San Carlos and a 5 minute drive to the Bart (train) station to go to the […]

With Maria in Brisbane and I’ll be joining her later this week thought was time to put up one last post before I go on holidays. Few weeks ago I joined some others in walking up the local volcano – Tavurvur. Ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tavurvur Its been dormant for the last 15 months and seems to only […]

Our first Christmas in Kokopo this year! Last year we went home to Australia for Christmas. Christmas is celebrated locally but for most locals this means being with family, going to Church, PERHAPS a special meal. There are a few decorations in the shops but no decorated houses like we see in Australia. The Trade […]