WED. 29 APRIL 1964 DULL, OVERCAST, SOME LIGHT RAIN. THIS TURNED OUT TO BE THE DAY WE HAD BEEN WAITING FOR. LATE IN THE AFTERNOON THE AZTEC, PILOTED BY BILL RODGERS, CAME IN WITH KIM, EDEWAWA AND DAVIDA! WE HAD A GOOD REUNION, AND AN INTRODUCTION TO THE P.O. WE TOOK THE BOYS DOWN TO THE TIMBER HOUSE, GAVE THEM THEIR SLEEPING BAGS, RATIONS, + UTENSILS. KIM WAS EXCUSED FROM GETTING KAI TONIGHT. TOBRAM WAS GLAD TO SEE THE BOYS. THEY ALL LOOK A BIT THIN, AND THEY HAVE ALL BEEN ON BETEL NUT (KALIMO). THEY TELL ME THEY HAVE BEEN IN SAMARAI FOR THREE WEEKS WAITING FOR A BOAT TO LAE. IT TURNS OUT THAT "DUSTY" MILLER (MR. LAKE) WAS SOUTH ON LEAVE, + HIS #2 SENT US NO NOTIFICATION OF THE FACT THAT THE BOYS WERE STILL IN SAMARAI OR THAT THEY COULDN'T GET A BOAT. WHAT STUPIDITY! IT TOOK MY URGENT TELEGRAM TO GET THEM ON A PLANE FOR PORT MORESBY, AND THEN A D.C.6 TO LAE, WHERE LIONEL EVENNETT PICKED THEM UP AND SHOT THEM THRU TO LAURIE CROWLEY TO BRING TO PINDIV. WELL, ALL'S WELL AT LAST. STAN SHOT AT BATS LAST NIGHT WHILE I READ TIME. THE SHOOTING WOKE UP KEN WHO HAD A GO. THEN STAN GOT HIS TROUT FLIES OUT, HUNG THEM ON A STRING, GAVE ONE TO STAN; WITHIN '30 SECONDS A MINIOPTERUS HAD CURLED HIS TAIL AROUND THE FLY AND SNAGGED ON THE HOOK! MUCH EXCITMENT. STAN GOT HIS FLASH GUN + TOOK PICTURES OF KEN SITTING ON THE RAIL IN HIS STRIPED PAJAMAS AND WITH HIS FISH POLE, MUCH HILARITY!