Once upon a time Mother Goose and Bos Pela left Australia with 15 little Goslings and travelled with
them to Mt Hagen, Rabaul, Madang and Karawari.By the time they had reached Karawari three of them
had learnt to fly really well and away they flew to America and back to Europe.

The next day it was time for the remaining twelve little Goslings to stretch their wings for a big test and
fly from Karawari to Mt Hagen. Bos Pela went first and Mother Goose then sent the rest of them off one
at a time every two to three minutes into the sky and showed them the direction to take to reach Mt Hagen. After about 30 minutes 10 very frightened little Goslings came back to Mother Goose who was still waiting at the very wet airstrip of Karawari. After all the 10 Goslings were safely back on the ground at Karawari Bos Pela continued to circle high in the sky overhead. Of the two little Goslings who continued on to try to reach Mt Hagen became lost in cloud at 16,000 feet somewhere between Karawari and Mt Hagen.

Mother Goose squawked into the radio at the two Gosling still in the sky and at Mt Hagen Control Tower
by satellite phone and Mother Goose and Hagen Tower eventually coaxed them down and got them both
to land safely at Mt Hagen. Mother Goose was very relieved when Hagen Tower advised her when they
had each of them in sight and in the circuit area.

Mother Goose then decided to have a look for herself at what the problem was between Karawari and
Mt Hagen and why 10 of her Goslings had turned back. She then flew with Bos Pela all the way to
Mt Hagen and back to Karawari, at no time did she go above 7,000 feet and at no time did she go into
cloud. Bos Pela, who flew with Mother Goose to Mt Hagen and back said that it would be too hard for
all the little Goslings to find Mt Hagen under these conditions of cloud and valley flying so they all
stayed in the nest for another night at Karawari.

The next day Mother Goose took off first for Mt Hagen to find the best way to Mt Hagen for all of her
Goslings, while Bos Pela remained at Karawari to send the 10 Goslings off on their second try for
Mt Hagen.. She flew around all the cloud and positioned herself about half way between Karawari
and Mt Hagen at 12,000 feet so she could see all of her Goslings from a long way off and told Bos
Pela to send 6 of her Goslings to fly to Mt Hagen and she would direct them to Mt Hagen from high
over the Wabag and Wapenamanda Valley and into the Tomba Gap. One by one the Goslings
eventually came into view and she directed them one at a time along the valleys, some wanting
to go along the wrong valley, but by squawking such messages as turn left or turn right onto 120
degrees she eventually got 6 of them safely into Mt Hagen via the Tomba Gap. This whole operation
took about 2 hours, and Mother Goose followed the last one of the 6 Goslings into Mt Hagen.

When they were all safely on the ground in Mt Hagen Mother Goose took off again and headed back
to Karawari. She again positioned herself about half way between Karawari and Mt Hagen and told
all the remaining Goslings and Bos Pela to have another try. These last group of Goslings even
asked such questions as to which side of the cloud they should fly around. Again they were all
directed by Mother Goose to take up various headings, follow valleys, turn left, turn right, follow
the muddy river etc and Mother Goose was there watching all the Goslings fly underneath her and
away to Mt Hagen. Bos Pela came last and Mother Goose again followed them all into Mt Hagen
and they all arrived safely in Mt Hagen.

On take off again from Mt Hagen to return to Australia one of the little Goslings had his engine lose
power on him. He again landed safely at Mt Hagen by doing a teardrop turn and returning to the
opposite runway. Another Gosling was on the runway at the same time ready to depart and he quickly
did a 180 and removed himself. All the Goslings eventually left Mt Hagen and arrived back in Australia
on the same day together with Mother Goose and Bos Pela. They all flew away again to where they
came from, for they were now back in familiar territory and away from the cloud and mountains of
Papua New Guinea.

It is often said that fact is stranger than fiction even in fairy stories.