Rubaul - Where beauty and danger cohabit

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October 12th 2015

Published: October 28th 2015

This region of PNG borders on the Solomon Sea and while dotted with beautiful Islands, also has really deep troughs. We sailed over the Triobriand Trough which is 8000 meters deep on our overnight journey from Kitava to Rabaul, a distance of a little under 300 nautical miles. Did we notice the trough? Nope! Finally we turned and sailed down into Rabaul Harbour. The early morning skies had been qu... Read Full Entry

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Marg and Rob Humphrey

MargAndRob

Marg and Rob purchased a Horizon Wattle (Mercedes Sprinter) motorhome built by Ballina Campers and planned to circumnavigate Australia over the following couple of years, collecting it just after Rob retired in May 2011. The couple of years grew out to over 4 years during which time we travelled from Brisbane to Perth return accross the Nullarbor both ways in 2011; in 2012 we travelled various places on the East Coast of Australia. The highlight of the year was our October November trip to Port Douglas which included the total eclipse of the sun. 2013 saw us do a 'Lap' or 'Trip around the blo... full info

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The Island that was.

Our tour guide calls this Island home so he was very knowledgeable of the history of this region. A very lush area.

Japanese Defence Bunker

John heads down the bunker. It was not built for our sized people, so I chose not to follow him.

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Tavurvur across the bay

Pacific Dawn in Rabaul

Photo taken from the memorial look out.

City Destroyed

The flat and partly vegetated area on the left of this picture is where Rabaul City was located, but not rebuilt.

Rugged Ridges

Rabaul

Steep valleys and ridges

Tunnels in the hillside 1

Tunnels in the hillside 2

Tunnels in the hillside 3

A farewell choir

Rabaul

Farewell Tavurvur

A long range shot as we sailed down the harbour of the crater with steam and ash visible from a small eruption a week previous.

Tarvurvur Caldera

What we didn't see.

28th October 2015

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

Interesting
Leftovers from WWII I find really interesting. Too bad my girlfriend Emma doesn't think the same. Nice of you to show me the photo of this aircraft. Liked it a lot. /Ake

28th October 2015

Mum & Dad
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Interesting photos and comments
We can recall hearing about what the Japanese had done on Rabaul during the war. Good to see the tunnels but we do not recall that there were photos then only comments after it was retaken from Japanese.

28th October 2015

Mum & Dad
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7th November 2015

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

History
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing

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