Tonga – Day 6
Much like our first day, our final day in Tonga started in the dark, check in for our 45min flight from Ha’apai to Tongatapu was at 6.30am. All was going well until we got the causeway. As I mentioned earlier, it is barely above sea …
Month: April 2008
Tonga – Day 5
Though we weren’t at the beach, Friday was one of the most special days of the trip. Two of the cooks at the resort, Betsy and Latu told us about how Ha’apai would be grinding to a halt on Friday as it was Sports Day …
Tonga – Day 4
Thursday was the hottest and most beautiful day thus far. Not a cloud in the sky, and we made the most of it. We were swimming by 8.30am! Ethan had made friends with a lovely little guy called Harrison who kindly lent him his inflatable boat, so we all just hung out, snorkled, and got really brown! We had an awesome treat as an appetizer for dinner, Ota Ika or raw fish marinated coconut milk. A similar dish to mexican cerviche, only in the fact that the fish isn’t cooked. Needless to say, as it was fish, all three of us loved it!
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Tonga – Day 3
On Wednesday Dave set up one of the fabulous beachcrusiers with the toddler seat and we set of to explore the islands. This is a great map showing the Ha’apai group of islands which are located in the middle of The Kingdom of Tonga. …
Tonga – Day 2
Tuesday dawned as hot, sunny and picture perfect as Monday, so after a nice sleep in we headed back to the beach in front of the resort, for swimming, kayaking and fishing; and that is all we did all day! Dave caught a rock cod …
Louie's Vacation
While the rest of his family were relaxing in Tonga, Captain Lou vacationed in tropical Waimauku with Nana, Grandad and Molly-dog. When Dave and I saw these pics we couldn’t help but laugh….he is a menace!
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Problem publishing
Something is up with blogger and I can’t upload any images, very sucky ’cause I want to show you all of our pics!!!! Patience, hopefully they will get it sorted soon.
Tonga – Day 1
After a very early start (4am) amidst the worst rainstorm Auckland had seen since last winter, we were on the plane and Ethan was enjoying the first marvelous wonder of our Tongan holiday – “breakfast on a plane, how strange!”. It was a short easy …
Preparing for Tonga
7 more sleeps!
Ethan is preparing for the Tongan Trench, he has been diving with ‘incredible animals’ (Louie) all night.
