Muri Beach Cottages Rarotonga
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We cleared immigration and customs. My hopes of some last minute duty free were dashed as although there was a sign, I couldn't work out how to get to it. Our transport was where it was supposed to be and we were in the van, in Rarotonga, and on our way.
Our driver said he did something I didn't know was possible - work a 42 hour day. I asked how, but he didn’t explain. We saw nothing of the east coast of the island as we headed to Muri Beach due to the rain and the pitch dark. D...
11/10/09 Day 2 Muri Beach
We woke up and apart from busting for a pee, all we could say/I can still say is wow! The living room has some high windows around it and from the platform we could see out across the amazingly blue lagoon. The rain had gone and the sun was shining. Yahoooooo!!!
The balcony was the other reason we chose the pole house. It's built right over the rocks that fringe the headland that marks the end of the Muri Lagoon. I am not a religious person but I found...
13/10/09 Day 4 Muri Beach, Fruits of Rarotonga
Snorkeling this morning. Bit windy but still warm. Headed up the road (easier than walking up the beach) to Fruits of Rarotonga. There were already quite a few people out in the water. Gwen provides snorkeling gear but in hindsight I wished we'd bought and brought our own. None of the flippers were big enough for us and the goggles were also a bit dodgy. They were ok though and did the job.
When we bought the new camera we were goi...
14/10/09 Day 5 Muri Beach, Rarotonga
Woke up and it was pretty miserable outside. I called Pa's to tell them we wouldn’t be doing the walk but they beat me to it and said they wouldn’t be in any case. Offered us Friday but we fly to Aitutaki so they will take us tomorrow if the weather is fine. Fantastic! We’ve heard it’s a bit slippery when it’s wet so we imagine it will be treacherous today.
The rain has cleared as the morning has gone on and the ...
15/10/09 Day 6 Muri Beach, Rarotonga cross island walk, Avarua
Spectacular morning. Al went down on to the rocks to photograph the sunrise. Came back up after a while and said he'd been sat there for ages wondering why the sun wasn’t getting any closer to the horizon. Mmm….
Van picked us up right on 8.30 for Pa’s Mountain walk. Already six others in the van and we picked another two up before picking up Pa.
He is a Rarotongan, and possibly Polynesian, i...
12/10/09 Day 3 Muri Beach and Avarua, Rarotonga
Decided we'd go for a walk in the opposite direction this morning so had some brekkie and headed round passed Te Manava Villas and along the south coast. Some really beautiful villas and groups of cottages along the beach. No motus around here, just the reef about four or five hundred metres offshore and a long white beach fringed with palm trees. If it sounds like paradise it is. We walked passed Fruits of Rarotonga, a café beside the ro...
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... one piece. A few hours at Christchurch airport (including just enough time to head out of the airport, get a photo in front of a signpost telling us that Rarotonga was only about 3,500km "that way") we boarded our flight to the middle of nowhere and endured another hour of that good old "Nor´Westerly". Once the seatbelt signs were extinguished, the crew set about their mission - to get all the passengers inebriated so they could all head to business class ...
Rarotonga, Southern Cook Islands, Cook Islands sonandjim
... turned out he was a dude who I kept seeing ever time I'd ride my bike around the island....Alan, the paddling coach. The Cook Islanders are very modest with their swimwear (my bikinis are verboten around the school kids), but the rules happily did not apply to Alan the paddler. He looked like Tarzan with buzz-cut salt and pepper hair and a chisely face and coal-black eyes. Ahhh.....it turns out that volunteer work isn't work after all! :) Now many of you remember that I ...
Avarua, Southern Cook Islands, Cook Islands qgirl128
... wrong side of the road around to the south side of the island. Up a long driveway pointing into volcanic mountains, it looked so much like Bora Bora. And into this lush garden with a guesthouse planted in the center. My room looks out onto incredible gardens with a kidney-shaped pool and birds of paradise. Immediately, this crazy orange island kitty showed up outside my screen door. He accompanied me down to the pool where he went from being cute and purry, to ...
Muri Beach, Rarotonga, Cook Islands qgirl128
... lounging by the pool trying unsuccessfully to read and not doze off. In the afternoon we enjoyed an amusing movie- 'License to Wed' starring Robyn Williams. The show tonight called 'Save the last dance' was the first production by the Princess entertainers. What an energetic bunch of young people they are, and how polished a performance of song and dance they entertained us with. The only problem we have with these shows is that the theatre holds about 600, and even with 2 ...
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