Rarotonga the land of "liquid sunshine"
Lorna and I slept pretty much all of monday, and it was fab. We got up on monday evening and found that the restaurant in Castaway was closed, so we decided to go for a wander and find somewhere to eat. It was during this excusion that we discovered "Island Time" everything on the island pretty much shuts down after seven in the evening. We eventually found a restaurant, but the food was nothing to write home about, (but bizarrely - we have...)
Tuesday was pretty much a lie about and do nothing day, but we did meet a couple from London, Ken and Caroline (more people to join the London crew!!) they were travelling the world. We also met a couple from NZ, Dave and Jo who we are going to visit in Invercargill (we have them both to thank for our jam packed schedule).
The highlights of our week in Rarotonga were
1. A 4X4 safari tour, which was class, the interior of the island is very lush and green (well it does chuck it down at night, and sometimes during the day) It loked a bit like Jurassic Park and they had saved some giant mozzies from then especially for us!!
2. Sailing on a Tri-maran, which Chris was enjoying until he managed to attempt to swallow half the South Pacific and then he proceded to turn white and go very quiet, which isn' t generally in his nature! True to form, we also got very sunburnt that day, but Chris is actually a bit brown now....shocker!! (but he will be back to white soon as he is now peeling!!)
3. Drinking in an locals bar, Caz (the 'handyman' from Castaways) took us to the Roadhouse on our way to dinner. It was an interesting experience, it had no actual floor covering so we were just standing on the mud, but the drink was cheap and wet and cold.
we stayed much longer than we planned to as it was good fun, so when we got the restaurant, Caz was kind enough to tell the restaurant we had all been on "Island time"
Other than that we did what we said we would, eat and sleep. Rarotonga is a strange little place, it looks very colonial and definately not for hardcore party animals. However it is lovely and we were both very sad to be leaving, but hey, onto places and adventures new...
Tuesday was pretty much a lie about and do nothing day, but we did meet a couple from London, Ken and Caroline (more people to join the London crew!!) they were travelling the world. We also met a couple from NZ, Dave and Jo who we are going to visit in Invercargill (we have them both to thank for our jam packed schedule).
The highlights of our week in Rarotonga were
1. A 4X4 safari tour, which was class, the interior of the island is very lush and green (well it does chuck it down at night, and sometimes during the day) It loked a bit like Jurassic Park and they had saved some giant mozzies from then especially for us!!
2. Sailing on a Tri-maran, which Chris was enjoying until he managed to attempt to swallow half the South Pacific and then he proceded to turn white and go very quiet, which isn' t generally in his nature! True to form, we also got very sunburnt that day, but Chris is actually a bit brown now....shocker!! (but he will be back to white soon as he is now peeling!!)
3. Drinking in an locals bar, Caz (the 'handyman' from Castaways) took us to the Roadhouse on our way to dinner. It was an interesting experience, it had no actual floor covering so we were just standing on the mud, but the drink was cheap and wet and cold.
we stayed much longer than we planned to as it was good fun, so when we got the restaurant, Caz was kind enough to tell the restaurant we had all been on "Island time"
Other than that we did what we said we would, eat and sleep. Rarotonga is a strange little place, it looks very colonial and definately not for hardcore party animals. However it is lovely and we were both very sad to be leaving, but hey, onto places and adventures new...
posted by BoobBoo at 11:49 PM
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