Here is an almost bleached-out old photo from those carefree and innocent days on the island of Bougainville when we were still travelling in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination.
The location is Camp 6 on Loloho Beach on Bougainville Island in New Guinea. I'm on the folding stretcher - we called them lilos then - outside my donga. Behind me is Brian Herde, and on the far right Roy Goldsworthy, both down from Panguna for the weekend. Someone had just cracked a joke and we were waiting for the messhall to open for dinner before cracking a few more jokes over a few beers. Just another photo from those carefree days when we were still coddiwompling through life.
I have coddiwompled all my life but am at an age when the dead people I know outnumber the live ones, and so my destination is no longer vague.
