Jan 05

Happy New Year everyone. The rainy season has started in the Solomon Islands and the Bilikiki is being stripped down to go for her annual maintenance, Sam & I are off for our holidays soon. The 2011 season was wonderful thank you to everyone who dived with us this year; I think it was one of our best years here yet. See you in March for the start of the 2012 season. "

Jan 04

Amazing last trip of the season, a great 14 night trip over Christmas and new year with a great bunch of divers. Had some spectacular dives with the mantas out in full force at Devils highway, a few ornate ghost pipefish, tons of jacks, lots of sharks, cuttlefish, morays, Pygmy seahorse you name it we saw it. Karumolun village hosted us for a Christmas spectacular in the afternoon christmas day. Thanks everyone for such a great time.

Dec 23

First dive of the Christmas trip at Petrol point (formally known as Patricks point) a beautiful ornate ghost pipefish. What a great start. Yesterday we had 10 mantas at Devils highway for an hour, 2 sea moths & 2 demon stingers in Maravagi bay:) Awesome trip so far

Dec 16

Out this afternoon for a weekend trip, onboard is Barbara Hanchard who is doing her 50th trip with Bilikiki Cruises. Thank you for diving with us Barbs, hopefully we will find you some very special nudis this trip.

Dec 13

3rd-13th December was a fantastic trip with the most wonderful weather we have had all year! The seas were flat and the sky was mostly clear. Diving was superb especially at Kicha with schools of batfish, jacks, bumphead parrots a few Sharks and the biggest great barracuda I have ever seen. The trip was topped off with a big crocodile swimming past us on the last night sunset cruise. A great trip with a great bunch of divers. "

Nov 30

It's the last night of a great 9 night trip with Janet & Greg from the US, Peter from the Uk and a group of 17 divers lead by Tomas from the Czech Republic. We have had some fantastic dives and a great time. I especially liked the bobbit worm at Patricks beach and the assortment of different ghost pipefish we have seen this trip. I think everyone enjoyed Sam's sharks action at Curacoa Shoals & Karumolun

Nov 17

This trip has been all about sex!
It's coral spawning time and the corals are really going for it, middle of the day, dusk, night they have no shame:) Everything else seems to be joining in; mating mandarin fish, green sea turtles doing it at Wickham island, lots of nudis getting some action as well. Very exciting trip so far:)

Nov 08

Just back from a really fun two week trip with a group lead by Bret Gilliam, great fun with great people. The mantas were there puting on a show 2 out of 3 times, the croc turned up at Mirror pond to smile for the cameras and some great dives were had by all. Very sad to see everyone go this morning, we are out again this afternoon with a new group.

Oct 25

Just back from the 15th - 25th October trip with the diving docs. Trip ended on a high noted with a beautiful Spanish dancer on the last night dive, plus a cuttlefish and an array of crabs and shrimps. Petrol point ( previously known as Patricks point) was going off with a load of grey reef sharks down deep, black tip reef sharks, jacks, bumphead parrotfish & napoleon wrasse. Anuha was back to its best with 6 cuttlefish, a demon stinger and about 8 gymnodoris ceylonica mating & egg laying. A great 10 days with some really interesting people. Hope to see you all again sometime.

Oct 17

October 5th - 14th trip was a real treat with Stan Waterman onboard, entertaining us with his stories and presentations. So great to see someone who has done so much diving still really enjoy it. We also had Tom Campbell onboard who showed us some outstanding underwater footage and gave us some great presentations as well. We had perfect conditions at Mary Island with big schools of Jacks & Barracudas posing for the cameras. Great diving with some great people:)