Horrors from the Deep and other News Stories

Let’s see, it must be time for a round-up of recent Raro events:

The 30th annual Round Raro Road Race took place earlier this month. While I am no slave to the temple of fitness, I quite like the idea of running around a whole island…

A Muumuu Fashion Competition was held last week at the National Auditorium. While I don’t know the results I am sure flounces and flowery prints were the winners on the day.

The Cook Islands Government has taken a blugeon-2-birds-with-one-stone approach to some trickery items they have been dealing with.
Firstly the problem of the Miss Mataroa, what to do with this once proud vessel that is now a rusting hulk in the harbour?

Secondly, what to do with several tonnes of asbestos roofing left out in the open, gradually disintegrating in an unsecured pile out in the jungle?

Solution = sail the Miss Mataroa out into deep water and sink her. But then they thought aha, we’ll wrap the asbestos loosely in black plastic with brown parcel tape, load it up on the Miss Mataroa and sink both our problems.

This Final Solution was supposed to take place today, but anyone wandering down by the harbour as we did over the weekend couldn’t help but notice that the Miss Mataroa had developed a rather pronounced list to the starboard side. So apparently the asbestos is being repacked as I type and the big event will take place tomorrow.

Er…. Am I the only one having seconds thoughts about this plan?




Pictured (far left): The Miss Mataroa in Avarua Harbour when she as just an eyesore, not an eco-terrorist.