Seahorseseeker - Air Nuigini will cancel or move flights without notice! We showed up for our flight out to Hoskins, and it had departed an hour earlier and no one had told us. (Which pushed us back a whole day!) I wish someone had told me to check on our flight the day before 'just to make sure'....
BubbleBlocker - great report!
Something to think about: I LOVED the diving out of Walindi, and would go back in a heart-beat! But what made the trip amazing was PNG itself! If, along with the diving, you can go during a sing-sing, get on a boat on the Sepik River, or check out the Huli Wig Men, you will have an amazing trip! It was like going back 500 years. The lack of infrastructure (and TV and news and roads, etc.) means that people are born and live in the same village for generations. In the Tari area, brides are still paid for with 30 pigs, men and women have to live seperately (because the women will curse the men and steal their power), we spoke to people that thought the world was FLAT!!!!!!! It was the most amazing trip I have ever taken. So please consider - if you are taking the effort to go to PNG, spend half your time diving and the other half on the mainland on a tour (really the only way to do it). It is a 'once in a lifetime' trip where you feel like you are living in the pages of National Geographic!