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THE BEST OF HONIARA
EAT Breakwater Cafe – 75 metres from the Heritage Park Hotel entrance – is open from early morning until late afternoon. It serves the settlement’s best breakfast, delicious fruit drinks, lunchtime baguettes and ‘real’ coffee. DRINK The PCYC – Point Cruz Yacht Club – is quiet during the day but warms up in the evening, when locals, expats and holidaymakers descend to enjoy cold drinks in the open-air bar.
SEE Honiara’s Central Market isn’t just a place for locals to buy provisions, but also a spot to gather modest souvenirs.
flying-boat base. Yates can also arrange outings to dive on wartime wrecks or snorkel above coral reefs.
DO Tulagi is 32 kilometres across Iron Bottom Sound. Neil Yates from Tulagi Dive (tulagidive.com) offers jaunts that include a stroll around the Solomons’ colonial capital, lunch in the settlement where JFK was stationed during 1943, a visit to naval vessels beached around Florida Island, and past Gavutu Island’s destroyed
TOURS Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours (battlefields.com.au) will mark the 75th anniversary of the Guadalcanal campaign in 2017 with a five-day visit to the Solomon Islands from August 5 to 9.
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