Working for Offshore Navigation Inc (ONI) Kiwai Island So a couple of days after Christmas 1968, I was on a flight to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. The real adventure was about to begin! Dawn on 31 December found me in Port Moresby airport, waiting for a charter flight to Daru Island. I had to leave the hotel before breakfast, and none was available here, only really terrible coffee from a machine. I need breakfast to get my day going, so was really feeling empty….. We finally arrived at Daru about midday, and I was picked up by our rep there. He took me straight to the ‘social club’, which was just a place for the expatriates to drink, and boy did they drink, especially on New Years Eve! I still hadn’t had anything to eat, and there was no café on the island, so had to depend on vague promises for some one to take me to a lady somewhere who could make me a meal. I waited and waited, but they were too busy drinking to bother with my needs…. Of course I had to join in