Janvier 12, 2011 Aujourd’hui, c’était au tour de Viktor et Hélène de faire un baptême de plongée. On avait un peu hésité car les blessures de Viktor étaient encore fraiches. Mais les plaies ayant bien séché, on a décidé de tenter le coup. Le bateau du Raie Manta Club est venu nous read more…

January 11, 2011 Given Viktor´s accident yesterday only Adrian and I went diving today and we were very much looking forward to it. Neither one of us has ever dived before. A long time ago we thought abut getting diving certificates before the voyage, but we somehow didn´t mange to find read more…

January 10, 2011 After a slow morning we headed out on the bikes to have a look at the reef side of Tikehau, the side facing towards the ocean. We passed by the east end of the airport. Here is the end of the runway. No fences or other fancy read more…

January 9, 2011 I got up at 05:15 to once again attempt to restore my reputation. I biked over to town and down to the port. I had kept the small fish that had been refused access to the kitchen yesterday and now used them as bait. I had a read more…

January 8, 2011 Determined to restore my honor I got up at 5:30 to go fishing. I grabbed one of the plastic kayaks and headed for the boulders two islands down the beach. I had made sure to put aside a piece of French bread at dinner yesterday, which would read more…

January 7, 2011 Our last night on Easter Island we had managed to forget to close the window in the kids´s room. It was open behind the curtain. By the time we noticed, their bedroom was swarming with mosquitoes. At breakfast it became painfully clear how bad parents we are: read more…

January 6, 2011 We had a 2:35 pm flight to Tikehau and could take it easy in the morning. We showed up at breakfast just before closing at 9:30. We have a family rule that everyone speaks French when we are in France, so we had all switched to French read more…

January 5, 2011 We had seen all the most important archeological sites on the island and gotten an excellent explanation of it all from Christophe, Wikipedia and Steven Fischer (author of the book I read about the island´s history). We had therefore decided to use our last day here on read more…

January 4, 2011 After a brakfast with baguette, ham, cheese and jam we started our day at 9am again with Cristophe taking us to Orongo. Orongo was the venue of the tangata-manu, the annual birdman competition. From about 1760 to 1878 Easter Island´s ruler for the next year would be read more…

January 3, 2011 After a great breakfast Christophe was ready to give us a full day tour of the island at 9 am. I had chosen Cabanas Christophe because Christophe had a very god reputation on TripAdvisor and because he gave private guided tours in French at an unbeatable price. read more…