Solomons chatter Well, after getting home on Easter Sunday and then popping into reserves on Tuesday to see what time and where to parade, it was mentioned that they needed a Transport Supervisor to go to the Solomons with them. Soooo, within 2 days of being back in Australia, plans were already underway for me to be off again within a week or two for four to five months. I got to stay in town for the christening of my nephew, now my godson, and also my other new niece and a very quick time to catch up with family and [View Full Entry]

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As I stand on the end of the dock in Seghe, the most southern point on New Georgia Island with all my worldly posessions straped to my back, I can feel hat all too familiar feeling ball up inside of my stomach. I recognize it instantly as a twinge of insecurity as I watch the Solomon Express slowly turn, and with a belch of unhealthy black soot, groan away from me. A desparate re-apprasal of our current situationmakes me think that maybe, just maybe, the information that my attorney and I gathered from that guidebook that shall remain nameless, about Seghe [View Full Entry]

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Saturday, March 8, 2008 Today was a sea day as we are still enroute to Guadacanal. The lecture series has been very interesting as they do a very good job of summarizing the conflicts in this area and some of the early history of the area. They covered the Battle of Savo Island, which I had not really heard about but was one of the biggest defeats for the US Navy in history. If you watch the old movie Guadacanal with Willian Bendix, that movie actually does a good job of covering what happened on the island and nearby at sea. [View Full Entry]

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Sailed into the Slot and Iron Bottom Sound, past Suva Island at dawn. Arrived at the Guadalcanal dock, not to be confused in any way with a cruise ship terminal. The line handlers are bare footed! There are towers of containers and a small gazebo type structure with a couple of hammocks and a small fire. My guess it’s for the night watchmen. The gangway presents a challenge and it is one of the strangest configurations I have ever scene. Even the Security Offices was grinning. A group of locals in native dress (loincloths’) and body paint welcome us with drums [View Full Entry]

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Its Magic! After staring clueless at a miniature sickle shaped blade for nearly 20 minutes, my attorney has taken his life into his own hands and plunged the blade into a can of Solomon Island tuna. Food! This act of courage has ended our current diet consisting of mainly bread and doxycycline. Ahhh, protein! Now that I have a full stomach and can think somewhat clearly again, I have begun to realize that it has been sometime since my last entry. Not wanting to bore you, the reader, with more incoherent stories than necessary, Ill try to sum everything in another [View Full Entry]

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Greetings from Dusty Honiara. Yes that is right I am in the Solomon Islands right now, it is a beautiful day here, sun is shining, water is calm, and I went diving and also had a nap today. Good day?? I think so! So I think I’ll start back from the start of my little excursion to the Solomon Islands and catch y’all up. So I left Rarotonga in the middle of the bloody night. Sally came home from Vanuatu at 2:40 am, and I was to fly out on the same plane at 3:55, so James drove me and picked [View Full Entry]

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Before clearing Vanuaut we spent one extra day in Luganville. I was keen to scuba dive the Coolidge another time, so myself and 3 others got up early and caught the morning session. This time the guide took us inside the wreck! We went in a door at about 100ft down called Ewett's door, supposedly the last place Mess Cpt. Ewett was seen as the liner sank. Dropping into the door veritcally was like floating down an elevator shaft that decended into darkness. Armed with torches we eventually were 3 floors down and began to traverse horizontally down a large [View Full Entry]

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Hi everyone, today I am writing from Honiara the capital of the soloman islands. Our crew just pulled in yesterday afternoon so we have had some time to explore town (which only takes 15 or so min's in total) and we have a few more hours in town before heading off to our next destination, a desolate lagoon 80 miles away from where we are now. Scince i havent been able to find an avalible computer in the last few days I will fill you in as best as I can... after arriving in vanuatus main port we sailed to some [View Full Entry]

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