We have a little internet and so we're taking the opportunity to post a few photos we've taken over the last couple of months, to put some images with the words.

Forced to await better weather at Ontong Java atoll we were anchored behind the fringing reef watching rainstorms march up to the edge of the lagoon and stop there, remaining stationary until they either slid sideways or dissipated. Such rainstorms were benign yet still visually stunning. The big storms that hit during the night from any and every direction were the ones that we would have happily foregone