Happy New Year from Cook Islands!!!

First of all, My new pet friends and I wish you a great new year!!! I ended 2006 and started 2007 on Rarotonga (Cook Islands) with very little snow. I am here for a month with Katja and a friend of her. We spend our days diving (primarily teaching Katja and here friend), playing golf (no rules, balls fly everywhere), playing tennis, snorkeling (crystal clear water, but only possible in the lagoon or the harbour where I played with eagle rays),

lying on the beach (and being harrased by ice, our neighbor dog

watching dvd's (I rented a house on the beach), going to the 3 screen cinema (two are mostly used for Christian performances) and and low key clubbing in the beach bars (Heineken is the most sold bar here) and playing a weekly darts tournament in the bar with our local expat friends. It is here not so nice as in Fiji (nicer people, better snorkeling/diving, less roads and civilization, nicer nature, much more variation and more to see), but compared to any other place...I can not complain...
And then finally two days before departure: a turtle and a black tip while diving and the last day before departure: a white tip shark with snorkeling

My friends never let me down