My guide, a friendly and knowledgeable young man named Angelo Gustillo, ferries me across the bay to a smalllagoon, known locally as "the smalllagoon, " which you get to by kayaking through a narrow fissure in a limestone breaker.
The problem is that on the Carteret Islands, a horseshoe shaped scatter of small islands around a central lagoon, nowhere is more than 1.2 meters above sea level.