This was my 5th birding tour with Eagle-Eye. Our previous tours have us convinced we will never travel with any other company. For this one, the birding was an optional part of a tour to some of the most remote islands in Melanesia. The cultural stuff was so incredible that it distracted us to the point where several days we elected to skip the birding altogether, and did not regret any of our choices. Nonetheless, our 2 birding guides were able to find many of the endemics for the 10-person group, and we could have picked up more birds if we had stuck with them, but at what cost? The cultural stuff is not to be missed! Even some of the hard-core birders took a day here and there to appreciate the welcomes from the little villages, (many of the kids seeing tourists for the very first time!) complete with traditional dress, song, and dance (or sing sings as they call them in these islands). I could easily do this whole tour again and not repeat what I did on any of the 14 full days on The Heritage Adventurer.