Commodore
August 8, 2025

Saturday 9 August – off to join the rest of the yachts a couple of miles away

Our mute guy was around early to pick up some reading glasses which he was very happy with. We left soon afterwards to head up and join the other yachts (Lella, Profasea and Alma Feroz) on the main anchorage. We are all doing the same route to a town called Noro, where we check out of the Solomon Islands. Lella and Alma Feroz head south of PNG to Port Moresby. Profasea and ourselves are taking the northern more remote route above PNG to Indonesia. Rowan had found two other boats doing the route at roughly the same time, the one boat is a South African guy, bizarre to have three South African connected boats travelling through. Sadly Rowan just heard that the South African broke his knee/leg and is flying to hospital in Australia from Luganville. So I guess he wont be in our posse.

Kruno on Lella had very kindly marked a sandy patch for us with a fender, so we had an easy time anchoring. We did give ourselves a little fright going over some shallow coral that did come up very suddenly and sharply, but all good thank goodness. We went and had a little explore of the gorgeous white beach island, there is a single guy who is the caretaker of the island, living here all on his own. Its owned by a Local in Honiara and this is his holiday island! We had a snorkel around and found some giant clams, a lot of the coral was not in the best condition but patches were very good.

There were huge dark clouds mid afternoon, which brought a downpour but not too much thunder and lightening, we were right on the edge of it. At 5pm we all went ashore and built a fire for sunset drinks, luckily the rain stopped and we had a good chin wag around the fire. Thomas the caretaker joined us too, he is 42, not married and lives here all on his own, he goes back to his village over the weekend.