This book relates the authors extraordinarily adventurous experiences - all absolutely true and without any exaggeration - of visiting, living, and working in the Solomon Islands, primarily as an Australian diplomat in the mid-1980s. Some of the experiences related in the book include A momentous first contact encounter with isolated people. Stories of mysterious happenings which remain unexplained to outsiders to this day. Personal and inside accounts of the so-called ethnic tensions from 1998 to 2003. Surviving a plane crash. Living in idyllic but very basic villages. Interwoven among the adventurous stuff, there are stories of