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Yesterday all trekkers were up bright and early for a 4:15am pick up, well the two who were staying at the Holiday Inn, others at the Gateway Hotel had a little later sleep in with a pick up time of 4:30am. We then headed off to Bomana in a convoy arriving there around 4:45am in plenty of time for the 5:00am service.
Trekkers included:
Helen Rowles, Mark Atherton, Nigel McNair, Russell Gouldstone, Travis Meek, Martin Jacobs, Peter Kilpatrick, Anthony Campbell, Leesa Edwards, Sascha Ambrose, Geoffrey Burgess and Ruth Croft.
Our KTL team of porters and some of our trekkers from trek 272 seen here at the Bomana War Cemetery on Anzac Day 25th April 2007:
IMGP3431.jpgTrekkers were then flown to Kokoda around 10am and were welcomed by their guide Rod Ori at Kokoda airport:
SANY0317.jpgAfter arriving at Kokoda airstrip, trekkers were taken up to the Kokoda Station for a look around the monument area:
IMGP1786.jpgLater in the day trekkers were taken down to Russell Eroro's family block in Kokoda for some refreshments where they waited for our vehicle to drive them up to Kovello village where they spent the night:
SANY0313.jpgUpdate 26/04/07: Trekkers enjoyed their overnight at Kovello and were up and walking towards Isurava Village when I spoke with their guide Rod Ori around 7am this morning. Later in the morning he phoned in by sat phone saying two guys had requested personal porters, apart from that everyone was doing just fine.
Photograph: Rod Ori their KTL guide seen here on another trek last year that headed out from Ower's Corner:
IMGP2486___Rod.jpgUpdate 27th April, 2007: Trekkers overnighted last night at Isurava Village and this morning walked into the Isurava Battlesite Monument area. They will work their way through to Eora Creek where they will overnight.
Isurava_Monument.jpgUpdate 28th April: Trekkers are down low at the moment and its hard to get two way radio contact. Our guide however carried a sat phone so should there be a problem he can still contact us. Will give you an update as soon as we hear from our guide Rod Ori.
Trekkers have made it to the half way point of Efogi where they will spend the night. Trekkers overnighted at Brown River. After speaking with their guide today, all trekkers are doing just fine. Photograph Efogi Guesthouse:
Efogi_2_Guesthouse.jpgUpdate 1st May:Our guide called in this morning and it appears all are doing ok and will be out on Thursday as per schedule.
A couple of things have happened. Anthony Campbell was airlifted out of Menari – is ok now and resting in a hotel. I spoke with this morning and he says he still does not feel 100% but is ok.
At the moment there is a problem with aircraft and pilots which have caused us quite a few headaches. Airlines of PNG's pilot Michael Butler was out of hours and could not fly but due to the fact that it was a medivac was able to do the flight for us.
Also as there is only a couple of guys endorsed to fly into the airstrips on the Kokoda Track that with Mike out of action its near high impossible to get food drops into Efogi and other places. This caused us to hire some guys to walk food in for our porters and we have been trying desperately for the past two weeks and it was a no go zone. With Anthony's pickup we were able to convince Mike to drop our food off at Efogi for the next lot of treks heading out which he was kind enough to do for us.
Update 2nd May:Last night trekkers overnighted at Ioribaiwa Village and will be out as planned tomorrow. Their guide mentioned being at Ower's Corner around 1pm. If this plans works out they should be back in their hotel around 3:30pm:
Photograph:Ioribaiwa Village
Ioribaiwa_Village_5.jpgTomorrow they will walk down past Ua'Ule Creek
IMGP0169_Ua_Ule_Creek.jpgand will wade across across Goldie River
Goldie_River_4.jpgbefore making their way up to Ower's Corner which is quite a steep climb….and they thought they seen the last of the hills!!! Photograph: this is where we will meet up with them tomorrow, the archway at Ower's Corner.
Archway_Ower__s_Corner.jpgTrekkers were picked up at Vesulogo as the road was quite slippery on the way out and our truck got bogged and our two four wheel drive vehicles drove in further to meet up with them. Tonight we all met again at our trek de-briefing and everyone was in good spirits and were joining in the singing and saying they had a great time with our KTL boys.
Photogaph: taken at Vesulugo 3rd May 2007
IMGP3507.jpgPhotograph taken 3rd May, 2007:
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