Cook Island Diving Adventures at Rarotonga

The Cook Islands are named after the firstsummer, providing you with the perfect climate
European to land there in the 18th century,for your Cook Island diving adventure.
Captain Cook. They are now an independent stateCook Island diving consists of mostly easy and
with a small population and are fiercely protectiverelaxed reef diving, although there are some
of their rich cultural heritage. As far as divingwreck diving opportunities. Rarotonga is
goes, Cook island diving is ideal for beginners andsurrounded by a lagoon which provides an ideal
although not very challenging for seasoned divers,environment for snorkelling. If you venture
still offers beautiful marine life, warm waters allbeyond the lagoon, you will encounter more
year and lush rainforests and streams on theexciting dives as the Cook Islands are home to
island for above-the-sea adventures.many underwater caves, canyons and tunnels.
Rarotonga is the largest of the Cook Islands andThe island is best avoided from November to
the name appropriately means 'down south'.March during the cyclone season but July to
Despite being the largest island, it is still tiny andOctober are the ideal months for visiting, as it is
you can complete the island circuit by car in underhumpback whale season. While diving in the Cook
an hour. Rarotonga offers the best of bothIslands you are bound to encounter a variety of
worlds, as it is fringed by miles of sandy beachesmarine life, including magnificent mantra rays,
and coral reefs and inland are enigmatic misty andbarracudas and marlin, as well as Spanish dancers,
lush mountains. If 'tropical paradise' springs tosailfish and turtles. The numerous species of coral
mind, you're not far off, as it is situated justare unfortunately under invasion from destructive
inside the tropic of Capricorn and the watercrown of thorn starfish but recent culling has
temperature fluctuates between a temperate 23proven to be successful.
degrees Celsius and a warm 30 degrees in