We are back! Drove to the Bay and came back upriver aboard the tourist ship MERINDA. After a fish'n'chip lunch and a glass of Chablis - I drink the way I dress! - we arrived at Nelligen. I wore dark glasses and spoke in a falsetto voice to pass myself off as a tourist but my (mental?) slowness gave me away as a local.
Aboard the boat we met Robert and Verna from Ballarat in Victoria who just so happened to have lived in Wewak in the Sepik District of New Guinea for four years in the sixties. The talking never stopped! We invited them to "Riverbend" when they come through Nelligen on their way to Canberra.
