The Cook Islands

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The cook islands are the best place I have ever been, its like walking around in a Malibu advert, even tho that was somewhere else.
The island is 32Km around, and we rode bikes around the whole thing the other day, stopping off to swim in the sea every now and again.

Ive been bitten about 2 million times by little mozzie bastards, and i have a sun burnt hand.

I met up with a bunch of people on the plane, a guy called Matt, a guy called Steve who for some reason will only answer to "Ste", and three girls, Holly, Steph and Chrissy. They are all pretty cool, all English, and I've extended the cook Islands bit to 2 weeks now, and we're all gonna rent a beach house next week.

The other day, me and Holly got a boat and paddled across to another island, which was cool, but we hit some rocks and sank the boat, i had to bail out and walk across coral to get back, it was too shallow to swim, and there were a lot of these fish that headbut you to make you go away. Holly made it back with half the boat under water, and it took 15 minutes to drain all the water out of it. It was cool tho, we found a coconut and cracked that open to eat as we couldnt carry the boat back and had to wait ages for the others to come help.

Yesterday we walked from the very north of the island to the south, i dont know how far it is, but it took 5 hours of walking up to the peak of the mountain, and through tropical rainforest, in monsoon rain, they were gonna send the police in after us as it is stupidly dangerous, but we made it out fine, wrecked a lot of my stuff in the rain tho, and we had to wade through about 5 rivers that were up to our waist. We only did it to go to the waterfall, but by the time we got there we couldnt of cared less, no one even bothered to take a photo. And there were leeches, lots and lots of leeches.

Anyway, I'll get some photos up here to show you as soon as I get to a reasonable country with broadband and somewhere on the computer to plug the camera in, Ill speak to you soon when I get to Fiji!

Big love

Savs Mum xxx

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Photos

The Guys
Another one of the guys I was travelling with

Our House
This is the house we got for 15 bucks a night

RUMMY
Rum is great, why did no one tell me about rum?

Comments

[Lucy]

Beautiful...
Glad your having an amazing time already! I've so gotten used it being summer already out here...so glad I'm not at home in the cooooold. Take Care Ian

[kerrie]

wow
how fantastic does all that sound!! it sounds like you are having an amazing time, cant wait to hear more... i would write more but i have an essay to finish on a champagne hangover, its fun here too..... take care love lots k x x x

[Sav]

Fact
Ian is going to marry a carrot when he is older.

[del]

big love
Big Love man, that sounds wicked! Can I come? Yesterday I was stuck on a piccadilly tube train for 30 mins. Almost as exciting. Almost.

[Rich]

W*nker
Guday dude, sounds like the cook islands are a fair bit nicer that the Sheffield. Am currently in extreme pain of having a fucked ear and a couple of dislocated fingers at the same time. Rugby its better that sex (well actually nowhere near). On the up side i have managed to turn into a lightweight and got wrecked on 4 pints last weekend. So whats these girls like then. If they're hot tell them i'm tall blond and built like a Stalone without the butt face. Actually they're half was across the world what do they care. Well look after yourself you jet setting b*stard and have fun lots of metrosexual love (thats not gay love) Rich whos your f*cking daddy Pearce

[Rich]

So dude let me get this right you've sunk a boat and crashed a bike all in the space of one island. Good f*cking effort.