Last week I embarked on another great work trip to the Pacific Islands, this time to Choiseul Province in the Solomon Islands. In total, the round trip took me 9 flights and 4 counties to complete with stops in Singapore, Australia and Papua New Guinea. I spent a quick night in Honiara, the capital of the Solomon Islands when I first arrived. Honiara is located on Guadalcanal Island, home of a famous WW2 battle.
The next morning I took an early flight on a Twin Otter prop plane out to Taro, the provincial capital of Choiseul and home for the next couple nights.
We were based in Taro for 2 days for consultation and planning workshops
And then headed out for 3 days of site visits in the communities to see the climate change projects that are being implemented. There are no roads in Choiseul (only logging roads, not even the runway is paved) so all travel is by boat. After a wet 3 hour boat ride to our first village, we started to pull up to shore and were greeted with a traditional welcome.
Luckily the weather cleared and we had calm seas and sun for the rest of the site visits.
There are no real hotels in the province so we slept in community guesthouse like the two following photos.
With no restaurants, we were reliant on the small shops in the villages for food. This was a pretty typical dinner in the field.
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