Solomon Islands Charter Itinerary

Solomon Islands Itinerary

Solomon Islands Yacht Charter
The Solomons are nine hundred islands with barely seven hundred thousand people, and they sit at the eastern edge of the Coral Triangle. The reefs are exceptional and almost entirely undived ’ this is not a destination with mooring buoys and dive shops.





It is also a war grave. The waters off Guadalcanal hold so many sunken warships from 1942 that they are called Ironbottom Sound. The wrecks are protected, the diving is serious, and the villages ashore have kept their languages, their carving and their customs largely intact.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Solomon Islands; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Tulagi

Tulagi was the colonial capital and then a Japanese and American base in turn. Dive Twin Tunnels, a pair of chimneys through a submerged atoll opening onto a wall at forty metres ’ soft coral, cuttlefish, and the reliable sense that nobody has been here recently. Ashore, the shipyard and the war remain.
Day 2

Florida Islands

The Nggela group has drop-offs that begin at five metres and continue past sport-diving limits. Snorkel Tanavula Point, then cross the Mboli Passage, a channel the Americans used as a shortcut, to Anuha. Seagrass beds here hold pygmy seahorses if you have the patience and a guide with sharp eyes.
Day 3

Karamolun

A morning dive on a ridge where grey reef sharks patrol the current and bigeye jacks school in a slow tornado. Then ashore to a village on Karamolun, where the dancing is not put on for anyone and the welcome is formal and warm. Custom and Christianity coexist here in ways that take some explaining.
Day 4

Mborokua

Mborokua, or Mary Island, is uninhabited and rarely visited. Barracuda Point is the dive: jacks, white-tip sharks, and barracuda in shoals dense enough to block the light. In the shallows, porcelain crabs and anemonefish for anyone who prefers small things. The island itself is forest and birds.
Day 5

Uepi & Marovo Lagoon

Marovo is the largest saltwater lagoon in the world, enclosed by a double barrier reef. Uepi sits on the rim, with the lagoon on one side and, on the other, a wall dropping into the Slot ’ the deep water the Japanese navy used to run reinforcements at night. The diving on that edge is remarkable.
Day 6

Mbulo & Paeva

Dive Mbulo’s coral walls, hung with gorgonian fans two metres across. Ashore at Paeva, the carvers work kerosene wood and ebony inlaid with nautilus shell ’ a tradition unbroken and genuinely fine. Buy directly from them. The money stays where it should, and the work is better than the airport shops.
Day 7

Mane Island to Honiara

A last day at anchor: swim, run the water toys, and dive Mirror Pond if the resident saltwater crocodile is elsewhere, which the guides will determine before anybody enters. Sail overnight for Honiara. The Solomons ask for effort and give back an ocean almost nobody else has seen.

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