Bougainville: Nissan Island – The Lagoon
Nissan Island is a classic coral atoll with an oval ring-shaped coral reef surrounding a lagoon. The landscape of the inner lagoon is just absolutely spectacular with sandy inner coastline, coconut palms, pandanus trees and other tropical vegetation. Walking around at low tide you get to explore many shallow tidal pools with various sea stars – we found three different species, include some mating! Also a sea eagle, lots of see cucumber, terns. And the local kids climbed a coconut and got us fresh-off-the-tree coconuts!
