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.