Mt Erima. Sunday 10th March 2013

On a wet Sunday, the POM Bushwalkers wandered out not far from Moresby and started an up and down walk amongst quarries and water treatment plants and the odd vegetable garden.

Basically the walk meandered along the road and then went vertical once we entered the quarry, why zig-zag up a hill when a tractor can go straight up?

Our path was clear, but the skies were overcast.  Which was a win-win, the cooling rain meant we were wet from nature and not from sweating.  The Ups were steep and the Downs were technical but all kept a reasonable footing.

I had to pull out halfway through leaving the rest for the last steep climb up Mt Erima.  I hear it went well yet some of the crew rested at 'base camp' while the others scaled the final ascent.

All in all, a great short walk, but technical and up and down.

Sunday 10th February 2013 - Taurama Barracks

Another bushwalk, another gun emplacement from World War Two.  A fair sized group of us met up and commuted casually down to Taurama Barracks.  This walk always starts off with a nasty climb high up along a spur and reaches its dizzying heights up above Pari Village.

 

The views were spectacular from on high, but the hot bright sun and the continual climbing took its toll and a few bushwalkers had  splintered off the back of the group and subsequently were reluctantly escorted back to the vehicles and back to the start.  Those that remained continued on along the undulating ridge line with each small hill and the everpresent hot february sun baking down on all.

The final destination of the Malaoro Markets were starting to look a long way off and an executive decision was made to get the remaining bushwalkers off the hill and out of the sun.  And then it became a mad scramble down the rocky hill, around a few gardens and straight through the middle of the settlement all the while listening to the fire and brimstone sermon by the Church crew in the bottom of the valley.  Pity there were no bagpipes or choral singing...

Boera Bushwalk - January 27, 2013.

Overcast conditions greeted a huge crowd of walkers and the cloud cover provided a bit of reprise from the normal January heat.  Recent rains had started to green up the area and Boera was a great choice to start a new year of walking.

Leaving the village, we headed straight away to the top of the nearby hill which holds the old gun emplacements from World War Two.  Anecdotal stories say that this was the only gun fired in anger during the conflict and the enemy in question was an island nearby... 

Since it has been some time between visits to Boera, I was shocked by the development of the LNG Project nearby.  This was just on the drawing board the last time I walked these hills so it was a little sad to see what progression had occurred.

The first two hills were okay, but then hill climbs 3 and 4 were pretty nasty as the sun was really starting to fire up.  Even my personal junior guide looked to me for some water....  

The beers back at Konebada Resort went down a treat.  Oh and so did the lobsters and prawns!  Yumyumyumyum!