16 November 2015

So today we left Panamailoa (Hazard) Island and Tewatewa (Hummock) Island and motored further East. We made our way into the Conflict Island's lagoon. We stopped for most of the day at the entrance and moved on in the late afternoon. We dived during our first stop and I encountered my first cuttlefish. A rather odd creature, a close relative of the octopus. It can change its texture and colour at will.
My dive buddy and I spent a good 15 minutes taking photographs and videoing it. I also glimpsed a turtle.
We've moved further into the lagoon and now we're anchored quite near the reef, about six or seven miles into the lagoon. This was so we can speed over the submerged part of the reef and dive on the outer walls, A group of us went to scout the diving at sunset this evening and then we went to watch the sun set on one of the sandbanks of the reef.
There's nobody else here, we haven't seen a boat for a while since leaving Alotau. It's a beautiful place, another uninhabited spit of land in the vast Pacific Ocean. Super blesses to be here! I'm looking forward to what tomorrow holds