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Best spot yet for snorkelling
Early this morning the rest of the party turned up, five more couples and two children. One of our number was a Cook Islander with the obvious local connections. What a lazy day, moving very slowly in the warm air today, our first stop was some coffee and then we filled the bikes with petrol,…
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The Ika Mata Mission
We headed off clockwise around the island on a mission to find the ingredients for Ika Mata which is a raw fish dish. We have had this wonderful entrée in several restaurants and we had eaten at and I had managed to find a number of recipes for it. The recipes all had the same…
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Bikers and their birds
We started by hiring motor scooters, they were hardly hired more than 30 minutes and we were off for a trip right around the island. Now free to go where we like when we like, what a wonderful easy thing to do. Chris had never ridden before and it had been 40 years since riding…
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Killer Picasso
Killer Picasso or lagoon triggerfish (Rhinecanthus aculeatus), this lagoon is full of killer triggerfish, well they would be if they were big enough. There I was just minding my own business and snorkeling along, and I have this triggerfish rush my mask, he did it once, then he did it again and then he did…
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Today is Clockwise
It was a big day today, we venture out from the resort and took the clockwise yellow Japanese imported bus around the island to town and did shopping, we got acquainted with the size and shape of the island. Its more or less round and just over thirty kilometres, the transport consists of lots of…