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We’ve just spent two days anchored off Gizo, one of the bigger towns of the Solomons, but it’s really just a village. The anchorage would be rough in trade wind conditions, but it was nicely calm and protected in NW winds (when we were there).
Gizo has the mouldy charm of one of the less charming Caribbean islands with (corroded) corrogated iron everywhere, muddy streets (okay, it was raining when we were there, so sunny skies might lift the charm level a bit) and little Chinese shop with a rather underwhelming range of goods. We stocked up on basics though as well as petrol and kerosene and this time we managed without lugging bags around: the town is really catering to the local boats, so almost every shop has a dock and we could just do our shopping, leave bags and jerry cans at the different locations and then go and pick them up by dinghy!