Oil Search Pacific Games Relay in Tari, Hela Province
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| Huli Wigman carrying Oil Search Baton Photo credit: madNess Photography |
The plane flew in over rugged mountains and valleys of patchwork quilt green gardens and kaukau mounds.
The Oil Search Ambassador Willy Kupo officially handed the Baton over to Minister James Marape at the airport.
Marape as first runner for Hela province was wearing the relay runner’s shirt and the traditional wig of the Huli wigmen. He was escorted on his leg of the Relay by elders of the Huli wigmen.
Marape spoke to the gathered crowd of his excitement at being a runner in the Relay and how the Relay was a great time for all and that it was travelling the country so that all could be part of the games experience and that he hoped many people of his province could join in.
The Relay ran around the outskirts of town and included our traditional games sponsor partners and then left to visit a number of community schools and the Tari Technical School.
Hundreds of school children from the neighbouring schools of Idawe and Tapawika created a corridor, one side dressed in yellow and the other blue, for the Baton to pass through.
The kids were also treated to a chance to shake hands with Tura the Games mascot.
The Relay wound its way out to the Hides gas conditioning site on a road that had the towering Tari defence barretts on each side, used by the relay as a running track.
From there the Relay finished at the Oil Search base camp of Nogoli where it was warmly welcomed by the staff at the site.
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