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Check out Bilikiki in Solomons, might be all booked out but an excellent operation.

I don't know the route you are planning but with the volcanic activity at present if you are going via Bali I would echo the advice to add an extra day into your schedule. If a transit airport is closed most airlines will try to re-route you and an extra day could be very helpful. Re Sorong I...

Thanks for current temp info. I've dived 10 day trips with 4 dives a day in just a skin when temps have been between 28 and 29C so think I'll do the same again for my December RA trip; vest and hood are the comfort blankets for night dives.

I am beginning to think I might need a wet suit after all! Thanks for posting.

I am booked on Mermaid 1 in December, I can't wait, but I am a little uncertain on the exposure protection to take. I have dived very happily in a skin in the Solomons and PNG in about 28C or 29C and not bothering with a wet suit really appeals. If you have a record of the temps you...

I'd agree, with the above, you could park up some where nice near Bay of Islands where your wife can enjoy sun and water and you dive the Rainbow Warrior and/or the Poor Knights Islands.

Thanks for the report, Indonesia is on my horizon and the more I see about different locations the better informed I will be.

The diving is fantastic and the war remnants are there in abundance. Bilikiki isn't a luxury boat but everything works, the crew is very good and I loved the fact that locals would bring canoes out with fresh veggies for the boat to buy to replenish supplies. It is an experience of a different...

Internal flights in the Sollies are a bit hit and miss too. The airline has very few planes and once one has a problem there is a quick knock on effect. As others have said the trick is not to arrange your connections too tightly. If you can plan to arrive a day early. The other similarity...

Great report Kevster with some excellent photos, I have enjoyed the Bilikiki trip on a couple of occassions and while it is a shame the weather didn't play ball sound like you had a good trip. Next time it is worth going to Uepi. Alison

Years tec diving: < 1 (as of 2/3/2011) No of deco dives: 5 Tec instructor? No Trimix? No Rebreathers? No Caves? No Other comments: Got into tech this year as a way to extend bottom time and so visit some of the Iron Bottom Sound wrecks in the Solomon Islands where i am currenty resident...

Done, and my fist post on the tech forum! Should introduce myself on that other thread I guess. Alison

A fantatic array of critters, nice touch posting the original image as well as the post production one, thanks

Hi Andy's advice is correct. Getting the best out of Kapiti requires a southerly so that you can dive the marine reserve at the North end (which in a southerly is sheltered by the island). Dive Kapiti are the most likely to be running trips and if a Wellington based outfit is doing so they...

Stunning shots and the first whale shark picture completely undermines the view that you shouldn't shoot from above. Thanks for posting them.

Location - Solomon Islands; depth about 30m. I assumed these guys were grey reef sharks but the somewhat stubby dorsal fin made me wonder - and the picutre of the grey reef shark in my ID book is not good.. Suggestions welcome. [/IMG] And again Thanks Alison

Lovely shots, you feel you get a sense of the goby's personality!

I suggest you join this NZ forum, you are quite likely to get invitations to join members on their excursions. Around Auckland the best diving is in the Poor Knights 2.5 hours driving north and well worth setting aside a couple of days for. Dive! Tutakaka is the biggest operator there and has an...