A few days ago I had to haul my bosses up to Nob Nob Mountain  for a meeting. This giving me a couple of hours to kill, I took along a couple of cameras. One camera. One hour. What could be fairer?

Here is the view of Madang from the site of the communications tower:

Someone has kindly cut down the trees that were blocking the view here for the last few years. It look now more like it did when I first saw it in 1981.

This is the main communications tower on Nob Nob Mountain:

It doesn’t seem as if there is much more room for antennae left. All along the pathway on this ridge there are about a dozen other towers now. None of them were there a couple of years ago.

Here is the view of Nagada Harbour  from a location in the Pacific Orientation Camp:

The shots above were taken with the Olympus SP-590UZ.

I switched to the Canon G10 for this macro of a very interesting spider:

I used to enjoy this location because I could always find preying mantis to shoot. On this occasion, they were all hiding out. I saw none at all.

What I did see is what is obviously a Tree Monster. Locally, we might think of this a masalai  at play. He’s just trying to scare me:

He nearly did, too. Here is what it looked like to me in my head:

Yes, it is a very strange place. Not Nob Nob Mountain;  I mean in my head.

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