We landed in Rarotonga Int'l airport at 6am after a 9 hour flight. This airport is quite small and can only handle one commercial airplane at one time. The Cookies are quite concerned about the swine flu so we were greeted by the immigration officers wearing masks.
Our resort is quite nice. There are alot of Kiwi's here and I don't mean the fruit! Our first day was full of relaxing on the beach.It's not a sandy beach though. It's more shell-like. The island is surrounded by a reef so the water is quite shallow. I found it a little on the cold side but Ziad went out snorkelling and said it was amazing. Lots of really colourful fishes swimming around. The resort is part of a protected marine habitat, but they don't tell you not to step on the coral.