Rarotonga Cook Islands Pg.5

Cook Island school kids having some fun in front of the camera above.

While some visitors laze around in the sun at Muri Beach another more famous long time resident Tom Neale from New Zealand found the Cook Islands worth resting his bones at.

Tom Neale was known by some as the hermit of Suwarrow  - he lived around fourteen  years on the island - wrote a book   called An Island to Oneself. He died in Rarotonga in 1977.

The photograph at right shows Tom's grave   - it  is accross the street from the airport terminal near Avarua, Rarotonga in the RSA cemetary.

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