We arrived in Port Moresby to find there’s only one flight to Lake Murray every week, and we’ve missed it. Port Moresby is not quite safe for visitors without local knowledge, because of its high rate of random crime. And threats against Greenpeace here, which may be from corrupt officials or logging companies, have occurred. So we couldn’t go out without a minder – a pity. But life was still interesting. We stayed at the Greenpeace office with volunteers from other countries. It was like a big international family.

Everybody cooks according to the schedule or because they are willing to. During our wait for the next flight we tasted different cuisine including Japanese, Italian and of course, Chinese. I liked the desserts made by Natasha, a volunteer from France, very much. Unfortunately, when we met her, she had already been at the GFRS for three weeks, and was on her way home.

When our turn came, Cathy and I successfully made a dinner for ten people, but in fact, it was a little difficult to cook Chinese dishes just by using the ingredients we had. It was an unexpected result that people said we did an excellent job!

We took a very small plane to Lake Murray, which was supposed to depart at 6am but was delayed more than five hours. It was just like taking a roller coaster, but the landscape outside the window was so beautiful when we fly through all shapes of clouds between blue sky and green land – what an amazing experience!

“See the logging flow,” says Dorothy, who works for Greenpeace in PNG and accompanied us to the GFRS. Yes, there are interlaced logging flows stretching in the forests just like yellow rivers, which are used to carry out illegal timbers. It’s hard to describe my feeling at that time, for the most beautiful and awful scenes appeared before my eyes, together.