Off to PNG

So it is now official. I will be off to PNG on the 18th of February. The trip is to Kimbe Bay on the 18th of Feb next year. Kimbe Bay is in the West New Brittian Province of PNG in red on the Map below.




So Unfortunately I wont be going to Crazy Highland PNG but it's still a new country and it's a new culture. Kimbe is shown in More Detail in the Photo Below.

In between the VN and the OT on the Map above is an Island called Kimbe Island (Original Huh) and that is Where the Trip is to. It will be 10 days on a livaboard Dive Boat Moored off of this little Island.
The Project is pretty cool as well. They are trying to find out how far the Larvae go and where they go to and they have found a unique way of doing this. They have found a way to "tag" the Larvae even before they are born then you can sample that same and surrounding reefs to find out how far the Larvae travelled in the water column. This trip is about taging the larvae. There will be more trips later to collect the juveniles once they have settled on a reef and figue out how far they have traveled and which breeding pair they came from.
Anyway very cool news for the moment and I will post more on this trip soon.