Niue

Alofi. Niue's Main Town.

Mutalau Village.

Hio, Hikutavake, Tuapa.

Namukulu, Namukulu Cottages, Hakupu.

Niue's abandoned, and 2004 Cyclone Heta damaged homes.

Nuie Abondoned House 6 2018

The Wharf at Alofi, (Sir Roberts Wharf).

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.

Customs paper work is completed on board 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.

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 that continued for a number of days.

Niue Designs.

Niue Foreshore and Coral Pools.

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

Matapa Chasm 7 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. 

Sea Tracks, Beaches and Pools.

Opaahi and Tamakautoga.

Uluvehi Caves.

Togo Chasm, Hikutavake Sea Track.

Makapu Point.

The Limu Pools, Namukulu.

Limu Pools 11 2018

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