JustAddWater
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I've been home from the Cook Islands for a week,and sure do miss the great visibility. I thought tanking up in my swimming pool yesterday would ease my affliction, but the plaster and tile didn't compare to the real deal. The Cook Islands are a wonderful place. Beautiful, clean, friendly people, affordable (compared to Tahiti), good diving. We travelled and dove in Rarotonga and Aitutaki. Raro is the larger of the two, and quite a bit more "cosmopolitan" (considering you are on a small island in the middle of the Pacific). They have three reputable dive operators. I went out with Cook Island Divers. They have a very nice operation. The dives were pinnacles and wall dives. We saw beautiful reef-life and some pelagics, including white-tip reef shark, barracuda, tuna, lionfish... Aitutaki has one, family-like operation called Aitutaki Scuba. Once again a fine experience. A highlight was a fairly short cave, with an entrance at 60' and an exit at 90'. The life within the crevices looked like a living art museum. The only disappointment on both islands was that there were no multi-tank trips. My wife was happy though; that meant shopping and island drinks in the afternoon. Overall, it was an outstanding vacation.