Aitutaki Beach Villas

... ever knowingly danced to techno! Sadly they also required audience participation so everyone who wanted to participate was paired up. They ran out of partners when they got to me so I then had to go first, following one of the male dancers without rehearsal along with an American chap. Sarah has half of this on video before her memory card ran out of space. Needless to say I look like a nutter. Sarah has persuaded me to put the clip on the blog. I ...

... Kit Homes from Currumbin. It was shipped over to Aitutaki in six shipping containers and just bolted together.<br><br>Pick up for cruise right on time. One couple already sitting on the back of the truck. He'd realised he'd left his camera back in their villa at the ALR&amp;S so we drove back around there and he got the boat to take him back over to collect it - you catch a little ferry to the resort as it's on it's on motu. <br><br>Picked ...

... on the beach when we reached the first motu. He ummed and ahhed and finally put it on. It was very hot and glary and I don't think he would have lasted as long as we did without it.<br><br>We headed up waking along the outer edge of the motu. The reef was between 50 and 100 metres off shore along most of the motu. Was hard going as the ground was a mix of volcanic rock and coral that hard morphed into really sharp limestone. <br><br>We found a channel that ...

... fish, some clams with amazing blue coloured lips. And you could just sit on the sandbank if you wanted to with your head just under the water. Amazing.<br><br>It was glary and quiet hot in the open speed boat but Nicholas and Louisa&#8217;s little guys were coping fantastically. They were getting a bit hungry though as were everyone else. We finally stopped on a motu for lunch. We went for a wander while they prepared it on board ...

... be on the same little island in the middle of the Pacific.<br><br>Soon it was time to move on again though and I packed my bags and headed to Auckland which, it being winter here, is currently cold and wet. This wasn't what I signed up for, so early tomorrow morning I fly to Vanuatu. Trekking up active volcanoes, abseiling down waterfalls and diving on one of the best wrecks in the world - it should be fun!<br>

... ollut. Aika hyvä mainoskikka kyllä, täytyy myöntää. :-) Teehetken jälkeen ajeltiin vielä aivan kiitoradan päähän, josta löytyi piilossa oleva todella hieno ranta. Tänään ei kuitenkaan uskaltanut hirveästi enää jalkoja auringossa kypsyttää, koska edelleen on melkoista kuumotusta eilisen paahteen jäljilta. Tämä Aitutakin kiitorata on muuten aivan u-s-k-o-m-a-t-t-o-m-a-n pitkä sen takia, että Amerikkalaiset aikoinaan rakensivat sen paikaksi ...

... joka tuli saarelle kolmen vaimonsa kanssa (ja ehkä myöhemmin oli muutama lisää) vuonna 1863. Tänä päivänä ympäri Polynesiaa elää yli 2000 ihmistä, joilla on sukujuuret tällä saarella, että aikamoinen äijä täytyi olla! :-) Toisella atollilla taas legendan mukaan tsunami vei 400 vuotta sitten melkein kaikki ihmiset ja jäljelle jäi ainoastaan 2 naista ja 15 miestä, hupsista vaan! Saarella olisi Lonely Planetin kirjan mukaan tällä hetkellä ainoastaan ...

... Aitutaki Lentoyhtiö: Air Rarotonga Konetyyppi: Saab 340 Lentonumero: 614 Ilmoitettu lähtöaika: 10.30 Toteutunut lähtöaika: 10.30 Lentomaileja: ? Lentoaika: 50 minuuttia Muuta: Hienoin lento ikinä! Vaikka tätä Saabia ylempänä jo dissasin, niin lento oli todella mukava, pehmeä ja lähestyminen Aitutakille oli takuulla upein lentokokemus ikinä! Siis tämä Aitutakin laguuni on ylhäältä käsin aivan uskomattoman upea ja kyllä tässä nyt alkoi jo koko porukan tunnelmat v ...

... tailed sharks about three feet long. I dove down to swim closer to them and as I emerged on the surface I noticed the zodiacs coming around to gather quickly gather everyone up. Whales had been spotted! And we were being gathered to go and swim with them!! (this is where I really start pinching myself!) So off we go to follow the humpback whales who are breaching and rolling nearby. We got close and our expedition ...

... Man Utd shirt, so told me he would leave a note for me when I got back with the result. I was gutted, but swimming in this paradise lagoon, was a small price to pay for missing such a curtail game. We got picked up by our guide for the day, called Captain Fantastic! A true islander! I watched him prepare our dinner before boarding the boat and it was the blue parrot fish, we had seen so many of in Rarotonga, and other places around the world. We were on a ...