DAY 4 - VASI CAMPSITE to KAGI

Sunday 12 October

A chilly sleep over the creek last night and the crew were eager to get going today and warmup and this didn’t take long as the they trekked across the bridge and out of camp 20 minutes, before hitting the first steep climb of the day on the way to the Kokoda Gap lookout for a break. Heavy rain overnight made for a greasy track today as they trekked up to the highest point of the track, Mt Bellamy, at 2190 meters where they all gathered at the highest point for a group photo. They then trekked through the “Moss Forrest” for the next 90 minutes, this is an amazing section of the track where they emerged out of the canopy of the dense jungle and into open terrain, and here the most common phrase is “wow”. Myola is synonymous with the strategically important supply chains during the campaign. Supplies were dropped here from planes (biscuit bombers) and then the inconceivable strength of the fuzzy wuzzy angels were used to carry them forward to Australian troops and carrying out the wounded. 

Then the trekkers hiked 45 minutes to Bomber’s camp for lunch and to see the sight of a crashed B25 American bomber plane. After lunch the rain came back for a few hours causing the track to become quite slippery all afternoon.

Then it was a short 20 minutes back onto the track for another grind of 60 minutes to the Kagi lookout on the hill they could see camp for night four in the distance. They had a break here and then trekked down towards the Kagi, Naduri junction for another break, then another 20-minute hike across and up into Kagi, where they were greated with the beautiful singing of the local villagers as they entered camp for night 4 on the track at 4:45pm. A few blisters strtaing to appera however, tonight they will enjoy a cultural sing-sing by the local kids. They are now over halfway!