SOLOMON ISLANDS PART 2
Solomons part 2 Last time I finished off we had just farewelled Gav and Sid and Dave had been diagnosed with dengue fever and yaws. We had decided to stay around Gizo and close to the hospital until Dave was well again. He still had 2 more injections to get for the yaws and so it made sense to stay here. Also our batteries were not performing well and we actually found 2 of them were overheating. We removed them and then a third went. Those all removed we were down to 3 and so it was definitely time to get some new ones. The next couple of couple of weeks were spent conserving power, finding batteries sorting delivery and payment. We could get them from Honiara and sent to Gizo on the boat, payment was another issue. We were unable to do a bank transfer from our NZ account to a Solomons account and the company wouldn't take a credit card payment. Fatboys resort, where we had been anchored, offered to do a transfer from their account for us, so I took the trip with them on th...