It’s been a busy couple of months on ‘Cat Knapp’ as she sailed from New Zealand to Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. We are currently coming to the end of a week of repairs, restocking and meetings in Honiara before we depart for Papua New Guinea. Despite the lack of comforts such as refrigeration onboard, it’s been an amazing adventure and we have been enjoying doing our part for marine conservation and community development in these remote parts of the world.

Chris has had a number of meetings this week with government, fisheries and contacts from the villages. We have also met with other non-government organizations to look for synergies in how we can support each other and work together. It has been a productive week promoting OceansWatch’s work within the Solomon Islands. It’s exciting to be invited to new communities and to be developing good relationships with Solomon Islands’ authorities as word spreads about our marine conservation and community development work.  For more information read our latest Newsletter.