Aitutaki Beach Villas

Lots of E winds all day. Up early, but just missed the best of the sunrise. Lagoon was was absolutely amazing!!! Awesome snorkeling with tons of fish and a huge variety of healthy coral. Lots of brilliant giant clams in the marine reserve( up to 150kg!) Great tuna and chicken lunch on honeymoon island. Tried breadfruit, which tasted like potatoe. More snorkeling in the purple coral reserve. Checked out the survivor islands than off to 1 foot island for my passport stamp.

Winday all night again. 15-20 kn E, but sun today! Amazing day of kiting. Everything felt right so I was going for it. Tried unhooking ealry in the day and was rewarded by landing 2 kiteloop railies!!!! with some height too!!! So stoked on the railies that I tried some kiteloop S-bends. Managed to land one and was extatic ...

Described by some as the jewel of the Cook Islands, Aitutaki is the second largest island in the group and sits at one end of a stunningly blue lagoon. But, if I can make a rather crass analogy, I found it to be a bit like a glamour model - undeniably attractive, but scratch the surface and there's not a lot going on...

That's not to say I didn't enjoy my couple of days there though, although my ...

Woke up in the morning wondering what to do for the day as I wasn't sure if my second boat cruise was going to happen given the lack of fuel (or petro as they call it) on the island. So I decided to rent some snorkeling gears from Fred, got mask, fins, and life jacket all for $3NZ! Luckily Captain Puna came to pick me up, and I am so glad he did because this was my best day in the Cook Islands! We picked up few more people along the way to his place, and got to the boat where another ...

Woke up early in the morning and got all ready for my first lagoon cruise with Bishop. I originally booked the Lava cruise with the big boat, but instead it was a little boat that came, probably due to the lack of fuel on the Island. They missed the petro ship so everyone will be running out of gas very soon.... Captain Awesome came to pick me up from the beach hut, and after picking up a group of family, we ...

Matkalla paratiisiin päivä 7 Torstai 26.3 Kuuma! Tänään oli siis aivan uskomattoman kuuma päivä, mikä ei sinällään haittaa minua yhtään, mutta tekee vaan sen ettei juuri mitään saa aikaiseksi. Koko aamupäivä tuli lähinnä maattua kissojen kanssa puolikuolleena tässä meidän terassilla ja lueskeltua Lonely Planetin matkaoppaita. Hiukan kävi tässä ihmetyttämään, että miten täällä Aitutakilla on pelkästään tyttökissoja joka paikassa, eikä yht ...

... ilmassa, että mitenköhän tästä hommasta selvitään?? Mistään kypäristä täällä ei ikinä ole kuultukkaan, joten eikun kallot halki! Snap, Crackle ja Pop! Hyvinhän se lähti onneksi heti menemään ja lähdetiin kaahaamaan kaksi ihmistä/skootteri kohti Arutangan kylää. Nyt voin sanoa, että oli muuten kuuma ja melkein alkoi Thaimaankin lämmöt jo jäädä kakkoseksi tässä käristyksessä, voi pojat!!! Ajaessa ei ollut hirveää hätää, mutta heti kun pysähtyi, niin alkoi lieskat polttelemaan ...

... jossa kalat uiskentelee ja vesi on todella lämmintä. Koiria täällä Aitutakilla ei (luojan kiitos) siis ole yhtä ainoaa, mutta kissoja näköjään on! :-) Saatiin nimittäin välittömästi kaksi nälkäistä kattia meidän bungalowin verannalle makoileman ja maukumaan. :-) Aivan mahtava homma, koska minä tykkään kissoista ja nämä karviset varmasti myös metsästää kaikki inhottavat nilviäiset pois meidän nurkilta kyttäilemästä. Tämähän oli oikea lottovoitto! Haluaisin joka reissulla ...

... to be even cheaper. The place I am staying at is called Amuri and the hosts are a middle-aged family, Maraiti and Nga, who literally adopted me. Only the food they feed me every day is probably worth more than what I pay for a night here. They have a plantation of mangos, bananas, oranges and pineapples and fresh fruit is literally forced into the guests' mouths. Local culture does not allow to say no to anything people offer and today I developed a slight diarrhea, probably from ...

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." Anon There are some days in my life where I find myself in such bliss that I almost have to pinch myself just to check that it isn't a dream. Today was one of those days. Early in the morning we disembarked aboard zodiacs for the idyllic island of Palmerston. Palmerston is a tiny dot in the Cook island chain and is ...