Rarotonga / Cook Islands
So, we spent our tuesday day in Auckland gathering all kind of things we need for the next month or so in Cook & Fiji. Underwater cameras (if we would have known how beatiful the reefs in Tonga were...), cosmetics, magazines, food, etc. The day in Auckland was a blessing after Tonga. All the cafes and restaurants with the urban athmosphere. You'll know to miss the cities after few days of isolation from all the goodies.Later the same day we took a flight to Cook Islands and arrived to Rarotonga early on tuesday morning. It was the very same day we left from auckland in the evening! Getting confused? No worries, we only crossed the date line and gained 1 day on our way. What I found embarassing was that I couldn't find Rarotonga or any other correct time zone city to adjust my clock automatickly to the correct time & date. So I needed to tweak my mobile phones clock manually. Perhaps I should tweak the timezone program a bit when I get home.
After Few days in Raro I've found that this island is really beatiful and compared to Tonga this place is much more clean. People seem to be living more on this moment and seem to be way more active than the people in Tonga. Well, that excludes the police (took two hours to get my Cook Islands drivers lisence - the actual procedure took 2 minutes).
At the moment I'm waiting for our trip to Aitutaki to see the famous lagoon and all the motus around it. It's been pretty warm all the time. Temperatures range from 21 to 28 night and day. Not too bad I'd say. The forecast for next weeks is shoving some scattered rain clouds (been like that almost every day) and the weather should clear towards the end. I guess the occasional rain showers are quite common in here but there's been enough sun to keep me happy!
Hopefully we can provide some great pictures from the lagoon.
posted by Raine @ 6:03 AM
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