Oil Search Pacific Games Relay Highlights – Week 3
Sunday was the Relay’s last day in Madang and the north coast put on a great show down at Malala, the Tufira surf club and at the Cocoa and Coconut Institute.
Monday morning we flew in by charter to Goroka to be met by the Asaro mudmen at the airport. The town Relay started up at Massy Hill to a colourful and excited welcome. The track was decorated from top to bottom with glorious highlands flowers and the community dressed in their provincial colours.
The Relay crossed all Goroka town and included a trip on the town fire engine. It finished at the Unicef Just Play day at the NSI oval.
Tuesday and the Relay drove to Yonki for a day with Games sponsor PNG Power. The baton crossed the dam and the causeway and got to go underground 230metres to the Yonki generation room.
From there the Baton travelled to Kundiawa, crossing the Daulo Pass where the team picked up circlets of flowers from the roadside kids.
In Kundiawa former Kumul players Nere Luauna and new Governor Kool started the Relay. The Relay went around town and then headed out to Kegsuglo and Mt Wilhelm.
Teams of young runners carried the Baton from Kundiawa to the base of Mt Wilhelm, climbing over a thousand metres. Some even ran the entire way.
The next two days saw the Baton make the climb to the top of Papua New Guinea – the Mt Wilhelm summit at 4,500 metres, being the second highest peak in the southern hemisphere.
The Oil Search Pacific Games Relay has now travelled 13,500 kilometres across Papua New Guinea and over 165,000 people have experienced the Relay.
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The relay team today embark on their journey to the Western province. Daily update to follow later today.
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