Solomon Islands - April 2017

Some of the best dive destinations are also the hardest to get to. I guess that's what keeps them on every scuba diver's bucket list. The Solomon Islands are no exception. Counting fewer than 25,000 annual visitors, most of them non-divers, the Solomons offer dive sites that see few divers. Unfortunately, there is no escaping the larger problem of warming oceans and acidification. Some evidence of coral bleaching was seen on our ten day trip aboard the Biliki liveaboard, but nowhere as dramatic as that in Australia, about a three hour flight to the southwest.

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Some Topside Photos

 

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