Wood Carvers a plenty

Hello All,
We are having a great time here in Mbili Passage. The last 2 days we have been visited by a dozen dug out canoes with the most beautiful wood carvings we have seen so far in the Solomon's. The wood of choice they use is Kerosen wood, which is a dark hard wood. The other is ebony and Rosewood. All of us now have a few carvings by trading stuffs or paying what little cash we brought along. I f we had to do it all over again we would have brought more tools and other things they need for trade, oh well, next time. Today we went to the small 4 family village and went to visit with one of the carvers named Alex. He came out and greeted us when we first arrived the other day. He is a really nice guy and showed us his tools and some of his work still uncompleted. Alex also has a yacht book that we signed and I gave him a picture of the boat. After visiting we took the dingy out to the reef not far from where we are anchored and Rafal and Paula went snorkeling. I stayed out of the water nursing a cut I am trying to get healed. They said the coral was amazing with lots of fish and they even got to swim with a few Manta Rays.
This is an amazing place and the people are wonderful. We will move north tomorrow 7 miles and anchor off a village on the mainland Vangunu Island.
That's all for now.

PEACE