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NIUE

Alofi

                  Alofi Main Street 1 2018                                      Central Services 1 2018                                          Alofi Markets 1 2018             

Mutalau Village

                    Mutalau Village 7 2018                                     Mutalau Village 10 2018                                       Mutalau Village 5 2018           

Hio, Hikutavake, Tuapa

                            Hio Cafe 1 2018                                     Hikutavake Memorial 1 2018                                      Tuapa Village 1 2018

  Namukulu, Namukulu Cottages, Hakupu

                 Namukulu Boat Ramp 2 2018                                   Niue Pool 2 2018  ​                                        Hakupu Stone House 1 2018
                      Washaway Cafe 1 2018                                    Water Tank Niue 1 2018                                    ​Mutalau Village 9 2018

Niue's abandoned, and 2004 Cyclone Heta damaged homes

                Tamakautoga House 2 2018                               ​Niue Abandoned House 2 2018                         Niue Abandoned House 6 2018
             ​Niue Abandoned House 3 2018   ​                        ​Niue Abandoned House 13 2018                        ​Niue Abandoned House 15 2018
             ​Niue Abandoned House 10 2018   ​                            Hikutavake House 2 2018​    ​                          Niue Abandoned House 19 2018                      

The Wharf at Alofi

             Alofi Fuel Storage Tank 2 2018                                  Sir Roberts Wharf 4 2018                                   Sir Roberts Wharf 3 2018

Unloading the Liloa II - November 2018

The container ship Liloa II arrives in Niue and unloads at Sir Roberts wharf, Alofi. A tug boat and a barge are lowered into the water from the wharf by a mobile crane. The ship's position is held by the forward anchor and two aft lines that are tethered to bollards on the wharf. The barge unloads two containers at a time. Each container is then offloaded onto a truck and transported up to the town. This unloading took a number of days and the landed containers lined the main road.  Because the sea around Niue can be so severe the tug boat, barge and container crane are keep safely on the cliff tops, well away from, and above the shore line.

The tug boat brings the aft tether lines ashore, one at a time. I was told the wharf bollards cost $1m apiece.
                  Liloa II Unloading 2 2018                                     Liloa II Unloading 3 2018   ​                               Liloa II Unloading 4 2018
Customs paper work before unloading commences. The barge is launched into  the sea by the mobile crane. The first container is loaded onto the barge by the ships cranes.
             ​    Liloa II Unloading 6 2018                                     ​ ​Liloa II Unloading 6 2018                                     ​ ​Liloa II Unloading 10 2018
Two containers are barged to the wharf at a time. The containers are loaded onto trucks and stacked on the side of the main road. This was a very slick and impressively well orchestrated operation. 
             ​    Liloa II Unloading 13 2018                                     ​ ​Liloa II Unloading 15 2018                                     ​ ​Liloa II Unloading 16 2018

Niue Designs

​                     Niue Patterns 3 2018   ​                                   Niue Patterns 1 2018  ​                                            Niue Patterns 2 2018

Foreshore and Coral Pools

                       Niue Reflections 6                                              Niue Reflections 11                                           Niue Reflections 12

Niue's Caves. Avaiki Cave, Pulaha Cave and the Matapa Chasm

                      Avaiki Cave 1 2018                                                Avaiki Cave 11 2018                                         Avaiki Cave 5 2018  
                      Avaiki Cave 8 2018                                                Avaiki Cave 11 2018                                         Avaiki Cave 13 2018  
                     Palaha Cave 1 2018                   ​                        Palaha Cave 12 2018        ​                                     Palaha Cave 7 2018
 ​                 Matapa Chasm 1 2018                                       Matapa Chasm 7 2018 ​                                          Matapa Chasm 4 2018

Niue Burial Grounds and Memorials

​In Niue, it is common to see the tombs and headstones of relatives and ancestors in household gardens. It is reported that many Niueans still embrace older religious ideas, believing in a supernatural world inhabited by aitu, spirits of dead ancestors or ghosts. Aitu keep a close eye on behavior and punish with misfortune, illness, or even death upon individuals who transgress social norms or flout cultural conventions. Death implies a gradual movement from this world to a parallel supernatural world inhabited by ghosts and ancestral spirits. 
​                 Hakupu Memorial 10 2018  ​                                  Hakupu Memorial 2 2018                                         Tomb Point 2 2018
​                 ​ ​   Tuapa Memorial 2                                             Mutalau Village 4 2018 ​ 2018​                                Mutalau Village 1 2018
                     Alofi Memorial 2 2018                                        Mutalau Memorial 1 2018   ​                               Hakupu Memorial 6 2018

Sea Tracks, Beaches and Pools

                          Avatele 1 2018                                             Bleached Coral 3 2018  ​                                       Outrigger Canoe 1 2018

Opaahi and Tamakautoga

 ​                        Opaahi 3 2018  ​                                          Tamakautoga Beach 3 2018                                Tamakautoga Beach 1 2018

Uluvehi Caves

 ​                 Uluvehi Caves 2 2018                                          Uluvehi Caves 6 2018                                           Uluvehi Caves 3 2018

Togo Chasm, Hikutavake Sea Track

 ​                    Togo Chasm 6 2018                                               Togo Chasm 2 2018                                   Hikutavake Sea Track 2 2018

Makapu Point

                    Makapu Point 1 2018                                        Outrigger Canoe 3 2018  ​                                       Makapu Point 2 2018

The Limu Pools, Namukulu

                            Limu Pools 4                                                      Limu Pools 11                                                        Limu Pools 2
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