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Clouds and silver linings
This is a top pick! The travelling bad luck continued. Don, owner of Otuhaka, dropped us off bright and early at the small tin shed which serves as the domestic terminal. Rick stopped off to keep me company before heading to get his later flight from the international terminal (a few hundred metres away). I checked in my bags, gave over my tickets... they had no …
Where the whales sing
This is a top pick! Morning came and I was out on the water again, this time on a dive boat, heading to some of the outer islands of the Vava'u chain. The wind and shade made me wish I had a thicker wetsuit, but the first dive in particular was worth it. We explored coral-crusted swim-throughs, saw lots of pretty fish and at one stage I had a big white-tipped reef …
Vava-voooom
Little Plane to Vava'U... View from little plane: azure sea broken by hairline surf highlighted reefs and tiny beach ringed atols, this is truly the stuff holiday brochures are made of (no photo sorry)... friendly Australian girl on transfer (no photo sorry).. more accomodation confusion... found alternative lodgings in the craziest little house, …
Humpback of Neiafu
A night of dancing and countless ikale, Andy being smooth with the locals and an astonishing day of swimming with Whales. Pacific Humpback whales come to Tonga - not for the cheap beer, but for the warm waters in which they give birth to and nurse their calves. We took a trip out on a rickety boat and within an hour had found our first whale, the …
Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish.
After the strain, stress and sun of watchign the whales we took some "vacation downtime" on Friday, spending the day in Trop and then moving to The Bounty for the yacht race. Sadly the race was cancelled due to lack of wind. We didn't let this prevent us from sinking an Ikale or two, but by half eight the lack of race, and therefore post-race …
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