15 – 25 Nov 2024
Join us on an exploratory wildlife cruise through the Solomon Islands. Starting from the capital, Honiara, we sail amongst the islands, in search of whales and dolphins. Alongside all the expected tropical species there are also reports of unidentified beaked whales. But a particular target will be Omura’s Whale, a tropical baleen whale which was unknown to science before 2004, when it was first described from the Solomons.
As with our other live-a-board trips, in the Solomons we will anchor each night in a sheltered location, allowing plenty of time to visit the islands and local villages. Most villages have traditional rights over adjacent reefs and forests, and in more remote locations we will have to pay our respects to the village elders before venturing ashore.
The Solomon Islands are home to an extraordinary diversity and abundance of tropical cetaceans, with an average of 15 species seen on each of our trips, and a total of 19 species recorded so far. This is the type locality of Omura’s Whale (i.e. the place from which the first scientific specimens were obtained) and we do keep a particular look-out for this species on all our trips.
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