After spending a couple days on the Cook Islands’ main isle, Rarotonga, in the spring, we caught an inter-island flight up to Aitutaki, one of the country’s more exclusive components and the most stunning spot I’ve ever visited. Of anywhere. EVER. You gotta love a place where the inside of the airport terminal looks like [...]
Photo Friday: Fruits of the South Pacific
April 17, 2009 By 21 Comments
I was baffled by how many different types of fruit grow in the Cook Islands, and shockingly, that does not include oranges as we came to find, and bananas grow upside down. Who knew? But everywhere we looked, there was fruit—quite literally—falling from the trees. A couple times, we were almost taken out entirely by [...]
Underwater Rarotonga
April 8, 2009 By 23 Comments
It’s no secret: In my under two years of diving, I’ve become a dive snob. The kind who totally turns up her nose at the mere mention of snorkeling. Why would I want to see a postcard of a place when I can actually go there? That’s the analogy I abide by anyway. When our [...]
The Cook Islands: Heaven on Earth
March 30, 2009 By 25 Comments
It’s no big secret that my very favorite part of my entire two-week trip to the South Pacific was our side jaunt up to Aitutaki. Sadly, we were only there a grand total of two days, but I saw enough to know that I want to go back. Pronto. From there, we took a day [...]
Kia Orana*
March 17, 2009 By 36 Comments
This morning I was quite disgruntled. Eighteen hours after leaving San Francisco, I landed in what is quite possibly the most gorgeous place on Earth, and woe is me, I’m tired! And my phone doesn’t work! And I have no Internet access! (In my defense, if SVV weren’t so much a worrier and I didn’t [...]
