28 August 2010
Making Dendeng
My attempt at making Dendeng … Sumatran style beef jerky. The only thing I wanted to bring back from my recent trip… Posted by Alex Chan on Saturday, August 28, 2010
9 August 2010
Chores and errands
Crossing the International Dateline, we landed in Auckland on Tuesday at 0850. We had the day to do chores and errands for the remainder of the day in Auckland; that was the reason for coming back early. We are grateful for the time we had in Rarotonga and Aitutaki, and didn’t feel short-changed for coming […]
8 August 2010
Change of plan
We had planned on getting the evening flight home. But there were things that needed sorting out at home so we changed our flights to an early one, very early in fact at 0615. We got on the flight fine on standby.
7 August 2010
Back to Rarotonga
We flew back to Rarotonga early and returned to the Aquarius Rarotonga for another nightstop. We hired a motorbike to explore even though the weather was getting a bit cool. We attempted to circle the whole island but failed on our first attempt anti-clockwise as it started drizzling. After a break, we reversed direction and […]
6 August 2010
Aitutaki
We did two dives today with Aitutaki Scuba (Neil Mitchell). The first dive was at Rapae Wall was alright. We saw a turtle float past … then another one which had been resting amongst the rock got up and took off. We also went down 28m into a canyon but there wasn’t much to see. My dive […]
6 August 2010
Diving in Aitutaki
We did two dives today with Aitutaki Scuba (Neil Mitchell). The first dive was at Rapae Wall was alright. We saw a turtle float past … then another one which had been resting amongst the rock got up and took off. We also went down 28m into a canyon but there wasn’t much to see. My dive […]
5 August 2010
Cruising Aitutaki Lagoon
Shortlived Despair The noise outside in the early morning was either rustling of the coconut fronds or rain … we couldn’t tell. It was windy and gloomy with patches of blue. Then came a loud knock on our front door followed by advice that our lagoon cruise with Kia Orana had been cancelled. We lay […]
4 August 2010
Short flight to paradise
We had to wake up at 0630 for the 0800 departure from Rarotonga to Aitutaki. We hadn’t thought of the “2 hour” time difference (but a day behind) when we planned to catch the early morning flight. Yawn! We got to the airport at 0715 and the place was dead. Things opened up shortly after […]
4 August 2010
Booking my next trip
We departed from Auckland at 0900 bound for Rarotonga. But it was an early set-off from the house at 0630 to avoid the Auckland traffic. But before that, I had to spend about 15 minutes on the computer as AirAsia had a sale for their new flights from Kuala Lumpur to Seoul … so I […]
3 August 2010
The way New Zealand should be
Above: Cook Island domain names end in “co.ck”. Due to crossing of the International Dateline we were back to Tuesday the 3rd of August! One day before we left New Zealand … We walked across the road from the small airport terminal for our overnight stay at Aquarius Rarotonga hotel. It was a tidy place […]