What time is it there?!

It’s less than two hours flying time to Rarotonga, so after our sleepless night we arrived raring to go at 9am.

Rarotonga is an even smaller island, about half the size of Moorea, so small in fact that even the hostels offer free airport pickups! (The entire coast road is just under 20 miles around). We are back on budget here with a proper hostel stay, however it’s a pretty nice place and we have a room about 10 feet from the pool.

There are about 4 ‘towns’ around the island although most of the major businesses are in Avarua which is closest to the airport. We got to see the Christmas lights being put up outside some of the shops. It’s quite a nice change to see these things not appearing until early December, rather than just after Halloween!

The climate here is obviously quite similar to Tahiti, although we were told that we had just missed 5 days of almost constant heavy rain, and we found it more comfortable after the extremes of our last day in Papeete.

The snorkelling was pretty good again here. Not that much coral to see just off the beach, but larger fish than we saw on Moorea.