back to explore more of the Teama underground river cave. The lake has fish and even big freshwater eels in various colours: brown, yellow, white and black. Cave-dwelling birds called swiftlets roam around using echos of sounds (echolocation) to navigate in the dark. I take a walk with Elias to the other end of the beach where people are living in caves in the cliff and under overhangs, even bringing their canoe into the dwelling. “Geologically speaking, there is no way that one would find diamonds in a limestone environment”
Guide Elias takes us on a canoe ride of the underground river inside Teama Cave
A couple of days later Steven Seru, the friendly owner of Adeeves Guesthouse in Buka, and a self-made entrepreneur, drives me in his 4WD to Kesa on
the northwestern tip of Buka Island. One hour is on a good bitumen road, but then it turns to dirt with many potholes for the next 40 minutes. A dead
end it is, with extensive mudflats and mangrove shoots all over at low tide. On the way back, Steven mentions a cave in the village of Tohatsi, near Ketskets.
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