Wayne Kerr's Tour de Tonga
Tonga. Rugby, big f’n night club bouncers, and earthquakes is how most know the place. Last week I had a few things to do on Tonga’s Vava’u Island and was quickly reminded of the locals laid back approach to life. Spent more time eating pigs and waiting for the blokes to recover from the excesses of nightly kava sessions than much work, but one shouldn’t complain I guess. Managed to get a few pics when the kava hadn’t completely sat me on my arse. I’ve gotta get back there in July-August and will try to update this then :).
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Around Vava’u Island - Tonga
Vava’u is a small joint and I managed a bit of a look around whilst the locals recovered from hangovers. It was raining most of the time but here’s a few pics from around town.
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^ The main harbour and downtown
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^ Found this small track up the back of town … led up to a nice lookout with the views below
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^ I was lucky to get what I think is a Great Frigate Bird with a wing span of about 2 metres in this one
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^ I am starting to get very jealous of these bastards who just seem to sail around the Pacific full time
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^ The beaches and islands looked good and hopefully will get it with blue skies next time ‘round
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^ The pigs are well fed on shellfish and sand worms from the intertidal area … the locals reckon this is why their pigs taste so good