A Quick Trip-With Lunch Free

When transport company director Keith Cummings, of Rabaul, shifted house from Rabaul to Raluana, about 10 miles away, he bought himself a sports car so that he could dash into work and home again.

But Raluana is on the now-notorious, unsealed Kokopo Road, which does not lend itself to good average speeds whatever the vehicle might be.

Said Keith: “It was dust one day, washaways the next, and heavy traffic the day after. If I did the trip in 12 minutes I was lucky.”

So he bought himself an outboard-powered runabout, and now he comes to work in 15 minutes —with no dust, no traffic and no worries—across the waters of Blanche Bay.

The only thing that slows him down is a school of fish —and then he trails a trolling line.

“It’s a dull day if I don’t catch something for my lunch on the trolling line,” he says.