Agnes Lodge Munda

I took a nice, relaxing boat ride from Gizo to Munda and got to see some local villages along the way The diving there was amazing. On one dive, when we go to depth there were three enormous eagle rays circling the area we were hanging out--amazing!!! I also did my first cave dive ever. We got off the boat and walked into this small island a bit to get to what looked like a small pool ...

... flowed years ago. Now, the entire area was grown over with vines so you had to high step with every step and still ended up tripping half of the time. It made the uphill much more tiring! After about 2 and a half hours battling the vines it turned into an incredibly steep and slippery climb up to base camp. I don't mind the uphill that much, I just kept remembering Kinabalu in Borneo and how much the downhill sucks ...

Arriving in the islands, the approach was beautiful, beat this navy pilots... I usually arrive with just a general idea of what I will do, where I will stay, but nothing firm. When I stepped off the plane in Gizo I thought this might backfire on me. The airport is not on the main island. You have to balance on all that remains of a pier to get to the boats that take you to the main island. Of course I had nothing pre-arranged and was beginning ...