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7 August 2010
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
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
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
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 […]
26 June 2010
The reason for stopping in Melbourne was to see my relatives … I hadn’t seen my aunt and my cousins for ten years. Lots have changed, both my cousins are now married with children. After exploring Melbourne during the day, I enjoyed dinner of Sarawak Laksa and Tapioca cake with the family. Very yummy.
25 June 2010
I caught up with a friend from Uni for a coffee lunchtime today … something which was unexpected and arrranged at short notice. What I had been waiting for was dinner with Natalia, a former school-mate and hostel-mate from my days in Yemen. She took me to a Yemeni restaurant in Ascot Vale (Union St) […]
5 April 2010
Thanks to the switch from Daylight Saving back to Standard Time, it wasn’t too hard to wake up for our 7am flight from Hokitika to Christchurch connecting to Auckland.
4 April 2010
From Hokitika we drove down to the two Glaciers … Franz Josef and Fox. Actually there are many more glaciers but these are the two that are open to visitors and managed by the Department of Conservation (with marked walking tracks etc for safety). While glaciers are pretty, the rivers that run from them aren’t […]