Kia Orana! Nov 9 to Nov 13 we got to hangout on this cool little island. Finally a place the speak English!!! My friend Chris Hornbeak told me about this little jem and we decided it sounded the coolest out of all the cook islands. And man we couldn't have picked a better place. It took us 7 days to get there and pretty much down wind sailing.
This is an aerial view of the island. I didn't take it. I found it on google but it gives you a better idea of the island. At the top is the main landmass where all the people live. The highest elevation is like 200ft. Not very tall... Everyone there pretty much rides motorbikes since it is a very small island and any where you want to go is pretty close. We rented some and I had way to much fun just riding around looking at the palm trees while playing white horses by the Rolling Stones over and over. Also you can see in this picture is that there are some motus (lil islands) and between them and the main island there is a HUGE pretty lagoon. All of that area is beautiful. Tons of pretty coral and fish! They also have giant clams.
Again we found such humble and friendly people and got invited to a bunch of events with tons of yummy food. This was by far my favorite place besides Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas. Its pretty unspoiled out of all the islands I've seen in the Pacific. I highly recommend visiting it someday! We realized though that it was pretty late in the season for us to just be getting to the Cook islands and having so much more distance to cover to get out of the hurricane belt that we randomly decided lets head to New Zealand and go adventure "down unda" so we left on the 13th and had to cross 1900 miles!
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