Sunday, November 27, 2011

Western Marovo Lagoon

Hello All,
We left Marovo Island yesterday between rain and overcast sky's and anchored for the night by the small village of Seghe. This is the biggest village of Marovo Lagoon and home to an old American airstrip that is used by Solomon airways now. There is a P38 WWII fighter plane just off the end of the runway in 15 feet of water that we went to look at this morning. It is in almost perfect condition considering it has been in the water since the war. We took a quick look around the village this morning also before leaving to the anchorage we are at now. Seghe is famous for the "Australian Coast Watchers" of WWII. There is a mountain behind the village where the Austrians had a lookout, to give a heads up to guadalcanal, if they saw any enemy ships coming there way. I remember seeing this in a documentary one time and now I can say I have been there. Seghe is on the most Eastern point of New Georgia Island.
Besides seeing the plane wreck there wasen't much to do there so we moved on to a beautiful Island group just south west of the village. It is not charted at all so I was using an old Solomon Islands guide book to get me here and it worked out great. The Island is Mbareho and is very small with an even smaller one to the south. We anchored west of the latter one, I forget the name, it's not on a chart. My position is 08 34.64s 157 48.88E. It was a beautiful day so we had good light to see all of the hazards and got here right at 1200. We went to visit the village and took a look around. There are a few carvers here so Rafal and Paula are hoping to get one more before we leave the lagoon in the morning.
Marove Lagoon has been an experience for sure and it has been a great place to visit. I would recommend this place to any cruiser wanting to see the best of the Solomon's.
We have a few options for the next anchorage and haven't decided but we hope to be in Gizo by Tuesday this week.
Talk to you soon.

PEACE

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