[Fred Douglass]

..I plugged in some information as "comments" on each of the photos you posted.

I din't know if that was the right way, but they're there! There are actually HUNDREDS of shots I need to download and/or scan in (the non-digital types). I have to dig-dig-dig, but I have photos of tanks, aircraft, ships and wilderness, as well as gun-emplacements, Japanese barges, bunkers, etc.----all unspoiled! They're just "there" on the beaches, in caves, in the jungle and in the shallows!

Anyway, thanks, Ron (and Janie!)-----if there's any interest on CC, I'll try and shove in some more photos. This trip (2006) was certainly one of the most memorable in my brief and inglorious life, I'll tell ya! The WHOLE Solomons area is unspoiled by tourism/hotels/golf, etc. A lot of the coastline shots show you the the area is largely UNOCCUPIED!!!! At one point, we steamed past Tetipari Island (south across Blanche Channel from New Georgia) and looked at 25+ miles of totally wild, coconut-palm shaded BEACH. Nobody there!

I'd go back there at the drop of a hat!

Be fun to hook up as a crew on a catamaran and dip in and out of the islands and reefs all the way from Vanuatu to Rabaul. That's 2050+ miles and would take weeks, but a "cat" could make it tolerable. The Melanesian people are just the best!!!