January 25, 2018
The Solomon Islands are nothing like its neighbourhood Pacific Islands of Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Samoa, and it doesn’t want to be. What makes the […]
January 16, 2018
A trail of shimmering bubbles in our wake, the hull of the Hirokawa Maru slowly takes form as we descend, first as a faint shadow against […]
August 9, 2017
You could drink cocktails by the pool in the Solomon Islands, but you’d be wasting an opportunity. The real Solomons need to be experienced head-on. Try […]
February 15, 2017
The Solomon Islands is well-known for its excellent reef and offshore fishing, but the remote jungles and elusive spot tail bass is a must for any […]
February 3, 2017
Dropping in to a clean South Pacific wave from a near-empty lineup, after a lunch of crayfish and a morning of scuba diving, is just one […]
January 19, 2017
The Solomon Islands is an archipelago of 992 islands in the southern Pacific Ocean, northeast of Australia between Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. One of these […]
October 4, 2016
For a tropical paradise only a three-hour flight from Sydney, the Solomon Islands are still very much undiscovered. While Fiji – a further two hours away […]
September 18, 2016
We can’t understand a word but the soaring, sweet harmonies are inspirational, and devotional. The hymns bursting forth from this little open-air stone church in Babanga […]
January 1, 2016
November saw the 52nd anniversary of the assassination, in 1963, of US president John F. Kennedy. Twenty years earlier, Kennedy, then a US Navy lieutenant, was […]