We've had a nice time here in Gizo and surrounding areas. We spent two days diving with dive Gizo and saw some more fabulous reefs, a sunken Hell Cat plane and a sunken Japanese boat from WW II.
Did a bit of shopping in Gizo the next day then headed out to an outlying island and picked up the mooring ball in front of Fatboys resort. It's another small relaxed resort here in the Solomon Islands. They have a few lovely bungalows, and more important to us, lovely clear, crocodile-free, waters to snorkel in. We've really enjoyed being able to jump off the boat to cool down whenever we want to, and we've taken the dinghy over to the outlying reef a few times for snorkeling and had some luck fishing there yesterday also. We caught two rainbow runners and a small skipjack tuna in about 40 minutes of trolling. Threw the skipjack back and had the rainbow runners for lunch. Jeff pan fried them and we had them rice, cucumber salad and tarter sauce. Yum.
We are back in Gizo today for a bit more shopping, then will probably head back to Noro soon to refuel and then planning to leave sometime between Tues and Thurs to sail up to Micronesia. This wil be a 900 mile trip and unfortunately we are expecting very light winds again. Since we also will be crossing the equator again on this trip we expect it to be another very hot sail, but we are very excited to get up to Micronesia (which is malaria and crocodile free - hurray!) We'll also probably be at sea for Christmas, but it doesn't feel much like Christmas here anyway, so no big deal.
We'll have little or no internet access before we leave, but I'll try to post a few short blogs from the sat phone as we go.
So, Merry Christmas in advance from everyone here on the God Spede!
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