Travel

Bob and Dinah Halstead work in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, where they operate a small husband-and-wife team called Tropical Diving Adventures. They started it because they love the sea. Bob went to PNG as a schoolteacher, and Dinah was born in the Milne Bay Province, where nearly 1000 islands are set in a quarter of a million square kilometres of beautiful, reef-strewn Pacific. Over the recent Christmas and New Year hol idays they inaugurated a Milne Bay Diving Safari, taking 12 amateur divers on a Milne Bay adventure in their specially fitted 11 m (36ft) dive boat, Solatai. We asked Bob and Dinah to tell us the story of that first trip, with the following result.