I have returned from a visit to Bougainville after 17 years away. I was born on Bougainville in 1972 and lived there until 1989. My father, Joe Stevens, was there for 18 years and worked for BCL. As a child I spent most of my life fishing the ocean around Bougainville. I spent 10 wonderful days in Bougainville in July/August this year, visiting Arawa, Kieta, Panguna and Loholo and fishing all around the waters of Arovo and Buka.
We live in Carnarvon WA. We flew to Cairns, then on to Port Moresby, then to Bougainville. We found a great guy who has a new tour business on Bougainville. His name is Zhon Bosco Miriona and he can be contacted at bougtours[AT]hotmail.com - for his website click here. He arranged everything for us once we got to Arawa at a reasonable price.
I would like to share the following photos on your BOUGAINVILLE website:
Panguna Mine
Single Men's units, now used as classrooms
Buka Passage
Roadside market on way from Buka to Arawa
Kieta
Number 4 Island off Loloho
Bovo School
The old boat ramp and weighbridge at Loloho
The old boat ramp and weighbridge at Loloho
An ex-Bovo School student's daughter May;
her dad Ralph Christen owns the resort on Sohano
Wreck at Arovo
The one that didn't get away:
Husband Tony caught this one at the reef near Arovo Island
