Oil Search Pacific Games Relay in Bulolo & Salamaua, Morobe Province
The day started with a flight across the dense forests before heading into the sharp ridged grass hills that appeared like crumpled paper before the day’s first stop at Menyamya.
Here the KukuKuku people met the baton with a sing sing before taking it on a Relay from the well-kept Menyamya Secondary School, through the government station and back to the airport.
Next there was a very brief stop at Aseki and then onto Bulolo where thousands greeted the Baton as the Relay wound from NewTown, through the markets and out to the Papua New Guinea Forest Products production plant before being escorted by three cowboys to the helicopter.
The school children of Bulolo put on a great display lined up along the streets creating a running track around their main oval. The lines disappeared however once the Baton reached them and the usual joyful and exuberant Relay chaos unfolded.
Next was another quick stop at Mumeng and the Zenag Chicken Ranch to allow the school kids to see the Baton before the team flew to Mangge Primary School, lodged on a high ridge overlooking a spectacular waterfall that dropped over hundreds of metres into the valley below.
The school welcomed the relay with a message drawn in rocks from the river valley below, a sing sing group that the team joined in with and a Relay around their high altitude oval.
From there the Relay flew across to Salamaua and the coastal villages of Kele, Buakap, Busama where the school kids ran the Baton up mountain sides and along the beach from village to village
The Oil Search Pacific Games relay heads to Finschaffen - Siassi tomorrow.
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