Oil Search Pacific Games Relay in Sogeri Plateau

The Oil Search Pacific Games Relay drove up to the Sogeri plateau and made its way out to Owers Corner for a brief visit to the Kokoda track, where porters waiting to take their next party of trekkers took the baton to the start of the Track.

Then a visit to the Sogeri National High School, now a School of excellence, to a fantastic welcome by the students dressed in house colours and led by their own marching drum band.

The school’s houses, named after famous PNG leaders that had studied at the school, all took turns to carry the baton in a relay around the school.

The students of Larowari High School were next, relaying the baton around their oval along with Oil Search Ambassador Kila Pidi, a former student.

The baton then stopped at the Varirata Park for photos at the lookout over Central and Port Moresby before heading down to the Laloki High School for its formal welcome into Central by Governor Kila Haoda.

The baton was carried up to a Koiari Treehouse by the school’s head boy to be blessed, before re-emerging carried by a traditional warrior.

After a relay around the oval by their sporting teams the baton was then run down the road by students of Iobana Kouba Primary School and Laloki High School.

Another nature stop at the 14 mile Adventure Park to capture photos of their amazing PNG orchids and then into Marianville High School where the girls chanted war cries as the baton was run around their oval.

The Oil Search Pacific Games Relay heads east to Kupiano tomorrow.