Amuri Sands, Aitutaki
Travel Blogs from Aitutaki
Südsee Teil II mit Wow-Effekt
... nen Strandabschnitt Familie Fischer aus Zürich. Thomas und Astrid sind mit ihren beiden Kindern Ada (6 Jahre) und Lena (4 Jahre) ebenfalls im Juli mit der Destination Kanada in das Abenteuer Weltreise gestartet, ihnen bleibt dafür jedoch ein ganzes Jahr Zeit. Die Cook Islands sind ihre zweite Destination, bevor es für die vier nach Neuseeland weitergeht. Nach nettem, ausgedehntem Plaudern (wir waren happy, uns wieder einmal auf Schweizerdeutsch unterhalten zu können :-)), ...
Air Raro: the only game in town
We're publishing this early since tomorrow is Easter Monday and we should have thought of this more when booking our flight. Easter is a big deal so most everything has been shut down since before Good Friday... We fly today to Aitutaki.
Air Rarotonga is the only commercial air service in all of the Cook Islands...this means that ...
More Island, More Rain, Less is More
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In a state of disgusting island laziness and the fact we’ve still got so much food in the fridge we decide to cancel the island night but can’t get through to them on the phone , it flicks to answering machine.
We see Paul a bit later on and he tells us Pacific Resort have called his number – everything is cancelled due to a death on the island. We go down to the local store to buy some small extras for dinner and the store is closed, ...
Boom Boom, Big Hill, Big Rain
... female voices and the odd locally produced bad rapper. Hilarious, reminiscent and soulful all at once.
Jim and Annie drop through to return the torch we lent the night before. They walk everywhere, it makes us feel guilty. But we are here on an intentful lazy holiday and I’ll be having none of that extreme hardcore activity. Like walking. We make plan to meet them at the ‘clam factory’ later on.
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Small island, small fish, small talk
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Instinctively, Jason pulls the boat around and Don throws out the lines again, we chop across the outer edge of the swirling birds and Boom Boom Baby ! We’re on ! I tustle with the easily the biggest fish Ive ever had on a line (not counting sharks) and it peels line off , once, twice, three times. It feels huge and my arms are starting to burn. I’m full of red cordial again and my testosterone and adrenalin reach heights not experienced since I ...