Azure Coconut

Keanui & Yann feeling the warmth of the Famous Pineapple One twist and she comes off with a slight parting sound. The fruit is still warm from the sunlight. Yann has picked his first pineapple and could not be any prouder! It was a long project for us of many attempts of trial and error. It mostly resulted in error but we finally got it right and our pineapple started taking off. The pineapple is a funny fruit so delicious and tropical, a royal’s delicacy and yet it doesn’t take much else than patience to grow it! When we first set out to grow pineapple, we watered it, weeded around it, fed it. In other words, we really looked after it. It would somehow die, sooner or later. Until one day a friend from Australia told us an Aussie proverb saying: Pineapple thrives on neglect. And neglected it has been!!! Yann and I thought that it was the only thing that we had not tried. So we decided to be really really mean to our pineapple and not even look at ...

From Manihiki to Rarotonga The anniversary of our arrival to Manihiki has just past on April 10 th. What an incredible year it has been. Rarotonga – Aitutaki – Manihiki – Rarotonga – Auckland - San Francisco – Frankfurt – Hamburg – Nice – Hamburg – Shanghai – Auckland – Rarotonga. Back home in lovely Tupapa after a 6.5-month adventure around the world. Time flies and I sure hope that the four of us will remember the important bits and do the moments justice. We are particularly grateful for little reminders of our time in Tukao. One of those, thanks to Papa Tobia Junior, is now proudly hanging on our porch in Tupapa: an original glass float from the lagoon of Manihiki. This post is about how the glass float rested over 20 years under the surface of Manihiki Lagoon, traveled the 1,000 km down south to Rarotonga and ended up in our home. One of the old seeding houses of Tukao   A couple of months into our job cleaning up the lagoon of Manihiki of abandoned p...