Myself and Joel are back in Rabaul. We are the advance party to organise the shipping container. We helicoptered out of the jungle yesterday which was quite a relief.
Final caving stats are
10km of new cave explored
9.5km surveyed
we found the 2nd deepest cave in PNG which is just over 500m deep (with a
100m pitch in)
20 sumps dived, longest 300m
The last 10 days has seen a spot of bother with our papuan guides (now all smoothed over) and lots of rain. The camp was a 3 inch mud pit with lots of wobbly tree fern bridges across rivers. Everything is damp and muddy. We planned for yesterday to be the chopper day, but were quite aware that we might have to wait a week to get out, like they did coming in. Luckily we got 6 hours which was enough to move the gear. The helicopter stuff was fantastic, but really scary as we had a cargo net snap which nearly crashed the chopper and we were within 100ft of the tree tops coming back to Rabaul as the cloud was coming in fast. The others are loading a boat some when in the next 3 days and sailing (24hours) to Rabaul so the hour chopper flight direct really was the cushy option. We are staying in a flat next to a rather nice beach front lodge which we are renting off a dive instructor we know, its great! He took us diving this morning. I saw 4 big broze whaler sharks fairly close, a turtle and so many fish is was amazing. We dived on a big sea wall covered in coral with a 40 m drop below us, an amazing intro to diving.
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