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The sand track through the palms
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The sand track through the palms

Cook Islands Dispatch: A Birthday Escape to Aitutaki
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Cook Islands Dispatch: A Birthday Escape to Aitutaki

I surprised Noah with a birthday weekend on Aitutaki — a private motu, a lagoon the color of nothing I've seen before, and one big mistake: we only booked a long weekend.

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Palms leaning out over the lagoon
The sand track through the palms
Out on the sandbank at low tide
The coast from the air, coming in
The overwater bungalows along the lagoon
A single palm over the shallows
The bungalows seen from the water
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The restaurant from the beach, late afternoon
Blue Footed Boobies
Iguana and crab
Red Crabs
Sea Iguanas
Sea Lion
Sleeping Sea Lion
Sea Iguana
White canvas tents on the dune at golden hour
The oasis and town, seen from the top of the dune
The dune ridge, late light, no one on it
The dunes end to end, a buggy parked at the rim