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5 August 2010
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
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 […]
3 August 2010
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 […]
19 October 2005
Today, we have a day to kill, about half of it without a hotel room. We have our flight to Easter Island departing after midnight. We started with a simple breakfast of cereal, stale baguettes, pate and cheese. We relaxed till our checkout time of 1100 and transferred our luggage into the Crew Lounge for […]
18 October 2005
After breakfast, we topped up on supplies from the supermarket. It was a relaxing day followed by dinner at the trucks. Today, it was roast chicken with a tamarind sauce plus chicken stir-fry with salted mustard greens. Yummy again! This evening Rodger joins us. After dinner, we set up his bed in preparation for his […]
17 October 2005
We woke around 0900 which meant it was too late for the early boat to Moorea. We took things easy and walked to town for the 1200 ferry, operated by the Aremiti 5. It was a very big and smooth ferry and it took only about half hour to make the journey across to Moorea. […]
16 October 2005
With the time difference from Auckland, we woke around 0930 today. We walked to the Carrefour supermarket promptly to get some food supplies. It’s expensive here so we didn’t want to eat at the hotel. While inside Carrefour, we had a delicious thin pizza and followed up with a toasted panini outside once the shopping […]
15 October 2005
As we had crossed the International Dateline getting to Rarotonga and then Papeete, we landed on Saturday 15 October, a day before we had departed. But just barely, as our arrival was at around 2340. Kim organised for us to get on the crew transport to the crew hotel, the Intercontinental Hotel, where we had […]