The Cook Islands for families: Sweet surrender

By Sheriden Rhodes
Updated April 9 2015 - 1:09pm, first published 11:51am
Cook Islands where the living is easy.
Cook Islands where the living is easy.
Cook Islands where the living is easy.
Cook Islands where the living is easy.
Cook Islands where the living is easy.
Cook Islands where the living is easy.
Aitutaki. Photo: Cook Islands Tourism
Aitutaki. Photo: Cook Islands Tourism
Tevakaroa Villas.
Tevakaroa Villas.
Colourful Cook Islands.
Colourful Cook Islands.

We've only been in the Cook Islands a few days when I start to feel an overwhelming urge to pack up and move here. Forever. The sentiment arrives somewhere between swimming around the Ta'akoka Motu, home to schools of butterfly fish and enormous trevally, and watching my six-year old daughter shimmy barefoot along a coconut palm bent low over the long, white sweep of Muri Beach.

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