Maravagi

Hello again,
Well it is now Monday once more. Can't believe how quickly our time in the Solomon Islands is going.
Well the rest of the week was spent either in the hospital or by the Pacific Casino Hotel pool. Friday night was chilled out, as myself, Anna and Joff had to get up early on Saturday for our weekend trip away.
We went to the resort of Maravagi for the weekend, which is a gorgeous little place on an Island in the Central Province or also know as the Nggela Islands. The boat trip there alone was spectacular, with loads of little islands covered in trees and gorgeous white sand beaches.
So after an hour and half of boat journey, and now quite sunburnt, we were greeted with lei's and a really yummy fruit drink and shown to our rooms. Basic but had an 'en-suite' of sorts. And then we had an explore around and had lunch (beef chop suey - so good) before de-camping to the beach. After spending a few hours reading/sleeping/holding hermit crab races, we went snorkelling. There are numerous coral reefs just off the islands with a huge array of fish and coral, all in about 1m depth of water. So we spent a good amount of time doing that before returning to our books. Dinner was equally, if not more yummy. It is possibly competing for best meal so far. It was a buffet dinner and for 12 quid there was steak, squid, coral trout, meat loaf, sausages, salad, sweet potato salad etc etc and it was all so so good!
Then there was some entertainment put on by the local kids, who had kind of built a band. They were so good and knew a fair variety of songs.
Early to bed than night, as we got up at 0615 to watch the sunrise. It was so pretty and definitely worth doing. We had breakfast at 7, but then were told about 0830 that we had to pack up and get the boat home. We were quite disappointed as we were told by Tourist Info that we could go home when we wanted to but they insuisted they were onyl doing one boat trip and we had to be on it. So that was annoying, but we went anyway, taking our time to pack up our stuff!
But in the end, we spent the afternoon at Honiara hotel by the pool and drinking fruit smoothies, so not a bad end to the day.
Monday, and we managed an hour in the hospital before going home! Not much going on and we were ignored by one of the reg's so we gave up. We still have a few more days left.
We are currently in town, as we are off to Malaita on Friday and need to confirm flights and ferries etc.
Another afternoon by the pool, what a hard life!
Love Kylie xx