Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 25 of 31
  1. #1
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983

    New Ireland Bike Ride, PNG

    A few years ago I rode a bike with a group, starting at Kavieng and we rode down to ?????. Spent about a week in all. Really beautiful, wish I'd had time for the diving as well though, since it is meant to be excellent.


  2. #2
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    an evening stop by a river opening to the ocean



    locals were ever so friendly




  3. #3
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    discussing route plans



    while the girls wait...


  4. #4
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    our trusty motor mechanic



    a hulking wreck along the coast, apparently still in use...




  5. #5
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    On the way down the coast we stopped to visit a woman who feeds eels for tourists. Cathy Hiob, used to be an international air hostess with Air Niugini but decided it would be more fun to look after eels at her village, Laraibina, which is about a 45 minute drive from Kavieng in the New Ireland Province. (actually she told us her mother died, and her tribe was matriarchal, which meant she had to go home to take over! Cathy also operates accommodation for backpackers which mainly caters for the cyclists which frequent New Ireland.
    New Ireland Tourism Bureau - Papua New Guinea




    AnywAY, we could hand feed her pet eels!

  6. #6
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    TBC

    *3.5 minutes left on the computer battery, and not a plug in sight, sorry. besides off to see Avatar!

  7. #7
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    New Ireland Bike Ride,... 19-12-2009 08:57 PM Chairman Mao blondie.


    thanks mate, any more constructive criticism ?

  8. #8
    Thailand Expat
    Stinky's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    Next door to digit
    Posts
    11,174
    Nice Thread Willy, looks good, any more photos?

  9. #9
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983

  10. #10
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    some more beach pics...


  11. #11
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    we found a little water hole for a much needed cool break!






  12. #12
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    some more riding, it was damn hot.


  13. #13
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    still messing around in that waterhole.


  14. #14
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    This fella took us fishing one day, i think it was a rest day.





    Stunning chain of mountains along the way, new ireland is basically a backbone of mountains...


  15. #15
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    One could always get a lift with the locals when the going got too hard...



    glad I rode all the bladdy way....



    We made it to Namatanai,


  16. #16
    Thailand Expat
    Stinky's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    Next door to digit
    Posts
    11,174
    Looks like a nice trip Willy, do you know if it's changed much over the years?

  17. #17
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    I think a King tide innundated much of the island a year or two back, but other than that I doubt very much anything has changed. You'd probably still be able to find that same fellow and the same truck still going.

  18. #18
    Thailand Expat
    Stinky's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    Next door to digit
    Posts
    11,174
    The fisherman is a lumpy looking fellow, how are the local females? any lookers?

  19. #19
    Pronce. PH said so AGAIN!
    slackula's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2009
    Last Online
    @
    Location
    Behind a slipping mask of sanity in Phuket.
    Posts
    9,088
    Quote Originally Posted by kingwilly
    New Ireland Bike Ride,... 19-12-2009 08:57 PM Chairman Mao blondie. thanks mate, any more constructive criticism ?
    A red for a photo thread? Too funny..

  20. #20
    RIP
    Propagator's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Last Online
    08-09-2010 @ 02:48 PM
    Location
    Runcorn, Cheshire, UK formerly Epsom Surrey.
    Posts
    3,366


    Looks like the fellow on the left is having a 'Chukka'

  21. #21
    Member

    Join Date
    Jun 2008
    Last Online
    30-03-2017 @ 01:46 PM
    Posts
    51
    Stoped over for a night in Kaveing once in 1980. At the local hotel we sat and ate crayfish for hours..........memories crayfish and SP, the local beer and a decent one to.
    HAWKEYE

  22. #22
    R.I.P.
    patsycat's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2007
    Last Online
    08-11-2017 @ 09:54 PM
    Location
    Geneva
    Posts
    7,387
    Why is it called New Ireland? Nice pics - are you the one dangling off the rope?

  23. #23
    Thailand Expat
    Marmite the Dog's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2005
    Last Online
    08-09-2014 @ 10:43 AM
    Location
    Simian Islands
    Posts
    34,827
    Quote Originally Posted by patsycat
    Why is it called New Ireland?
    It probably reminded Cook (or whoever) of Ireland. I guess it was raining at the time. Also, after renaming most of the world, they were probably struggling to come up with new names for places.

  24. #24
    Thailand Expat
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Last Online
    @
    Posts
    59,983
    The first travellers from the ‘old world’ of Europe to see New Ireland were the Dutch, The first European ship ever to sail around, and name, Cape Horn at the southernmost tip of South America (earlier ships had sailed through the Straits of Magellan to reach the Pacific since Magellan in 1521) was the Dutch sailing vessel Eendracht. Jacob le Maire, with his pilot Willem Schouten then sailed across the Pacific Ocean and on June 24 1616, sighted the Anir/Feni islands and named them St.John's Island, because it was that Saint's day. They continued NW along the coast of New Ireland, thinking, such were the difficulties of determining longitude at the time, they were on the north coast of New Guinea island. They carryied with them New Ireland’s first recorded, and probably reluctant, overseas traveller. He was nicknamed 'Moses' by the crew and had failed to be ransomed by his people for food, following an attack on the ship in which three New Irelanders were captured. He went with the ship to Jakarta where it was impounded and no more is known of 'Moses' fate.

  25. #25
    Member
    magpie's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Last Online
    20-09-2022 @ 02:48 AM
    Posts
    358
    Give us the dirt KW. Who fucked who?

Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •