Blogs from Cook Islands, Oceania - page 38

Hello everyone, After a short flight from Tahiti we arrived on the main island of Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. For our first 2 nights we stayed in our own beachouse which was brilliant - only about 20 ft from the lagoon with a hammock, verandah and lots of pet lizards!! The Cooks were governed by New Zealand and so we met a lot of Kiwis who were really friendly and gave us loads of travel advice about NZ. We have even got some people's addresses including a big, sweaty glamour photographer - not sure whether that was directed to me or Rich!! On our second night here, we went to an island night which included a traditional feast and island dancing. We both sank in our chairs and tried to hide as they rounded up ... read more

Hi everyone! it's so glad to hear that everythings going well! And Naomi...i'm super glad to hear that you've been keeping Cindy up to scratch...hahaha.....get it!?!?! anyways! we've super busy little vegemites lately! we've got the jobs at the resorts, which means Tee is in Kids club, and i'm in the restaurant and the bar during the nights!?!?! Yeee-hah! can't wait for an island night! we've been doing lots of snorkelling and swimming and RIDING...oh my goodness...Buns of steel i tell you! which means that we get to make the most of the spectacular weather that's been put on show for us! we've only had two days of rain this whole time we've been here...out of three weeks...only two days of rain (it usually rains in the night...but we never see that...hahaha...always too tired!) we took ... read more

Hello everyone! well well well...i know that your all having heaps of fun in SYdney with all that great weather and what not...(BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....NOT) just kidding well the weather here is approximately 28degrees (and it's only 5 past nine in the morning!) and it's only going to be fine and sunny again today! which means good weather for painting swimming and riding our bicycles! which we purchased for a measly $135.00 NZ and their virtually brand new....only a year old! so now we're able to get round the island in no time! we're hoping to put up some pictures this week...but it takes time because the computers are slow, and we're fairly lazy these days..(island time!!!) we're going off to the school now to do some more work (painting and fixing the library) until about 3:30pm (when ... read more

Hi Everyone! yes, this is our very first entry from overseas!!! what an exciting day we've had! the flights over to rarotonga where pretty good...rather uncomfortable, but ok (I guess that's what you get when you fly budget airlines!) we managed to stay awake for the majority of the trip over...and we even got a massage! we found these heaps cool massage chairs at Auckland airport, so we bought ourselves come dinner and sat in the massage chairs for 3 hours...i'm not kidding...we sat in them for three hours...it was so good... when we got to Rarotonga, it was a balmy 18 degrees (but it felt like 25!) and we were picked up and brought back to the hostel...where we encountered some really feral drunk pommies! gggggrrrrrr.....they vomited everywhere...it was quite funny actually... we got all ... read more

The flight from Fiji to the Cook Islands is again three hours but due to the fact we cross the international dateline we get caught in a temporal anomaly which means we travel back in time. Our flight took off from Nadi at 6:15pm on Saturday 19th August and landed on Raratonga in the Cook Islands at 11:30pm on Friday 18th August, nearly 20 hours before we took off! This means that we get to enjoy the 19th August all over again, and we can claim to be one day younger than we actually are! So we arrived at Raratonga airport in the middle of the night -well at 11pm anyway, and got out on the tarmac. Our guide book had warned us to expect a warm welcome from a man with a ukulele but considering ... read more