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PHOTO OF THE WEEK – Eye To Eye

Posted onMay 16, 2016September 12, 20214 Comments

  This wildlife image holds the  most meaning for me of all the photographs I have taken over the past ten years. I have it hanging in my kitchen where I see and marvel at Read More …

Categories2013 Season, Avatar, TongaTagshumpback whale

Close Encounter

Posted onSeptember 3, 2013July 31, 20153 Comments

We’ve been treated to beautiful weather in Tonga, with sunny skies and crystalline clear water vibrant in shades of blue and turquoise. But day before yesterday a storm moved in bringing gray skies and rain. Read More …

Categories2013 Season, Avatar, TongaTagsCarol Brooks Parker Photography, Carol Parker Photography, humpback whale, Kingdom of Tonga, Tonga, Vava'u

Swallows’ Cave and Mariner’s Cave

Posted onSeptember 3, 2013July 31, 2015

Just around the corner from Neiafu near an anchorage named Port Mourelle (after the Spaniard Don Francisco Antonio Mourelle who was the first European to land in Vava’u), are two well-known tourist destinations – a Read More …

Categories2013 Season, Avatar, TongaTagsCarol Brooks Parker Photography, Carol Parker Photography, Kingdom of Tonga, Mariner's Cave, Swallows' Cave, Tonga, Vava'u, Will Mariner

Whale Spotting

Posted onAugust 29, 2013July 31, 2015

It took us two weeks to get from Fiji to Tonga, thanks to an uncooperative convergence zone stalled overhead, producing heavy gray clouds, buckets of rain, and high winds. We navigated southeasterly through Fiji looking Read More …

Categories2013 Season, Avatar, TongaTagsCarol Brooks Parker Photography, Carol Parker Photography, humpback whale, Kingdom of Tonga, Tonga, Vava'u

Devastation in Niuatoputapu

Posted onOctober 1, 2009June 20, 2012Leave a comment

The past few days were marred by the devastation that occurred throughout SE Asia and the South Pacific with earthquakes,tsunamis and hurricanes in Indonesia,the Philippines, Samoa and Tonga causing loss of lives and catastrophic property Read More …

Categories2009 Season, Raven, TongaTagsNiuatoputapu, tsunami

Whale Watching Best Day Yet!

Posted onSeptember 6, 2009June 11, 20134 Comments

Sunday morning after the big party, we went out on our final guided whale watching trip – as it turns out saving the best for last. Our guide this time was Allan from Whale Watch Read More …

Categories2009 Season, Raven, TongaTagsCarol Parker Photography, Colin Baxter, humpback whale, Mounu Island Resort, Whale Watch Vava'u

Full Moon Party (Vava’u Style)

Posted onSeptember 6, 2009June 20, 20121 Comment

Morning all! Socked in gray and steady downpour this Monday morning, 2 inches of rain in the forecast. Boat is nicely washed off and we are now filling the water tanks by collecting rainwater. Should Read More …

Categories2009 Season, Raven, TongaTagsregatta, Vava'u

Whale Watching Day 2

Posted onSeptember 3, 2009June 20, 20121 Comment

We’re back in Vava’u after a not very fun sail from Niuatoputapu. We left Monday morning as the forecast indicated that was our best window for wind direction and strength in a weeklong forecast of Read More …

Categories2009 Season, Raven, TongaTagshumpback whale

Island Adventures

Posted onAugust 28, 2009June 20, 20121 Comment

We are anchored in the main harbor of Niuatoputapu (translation: Very Sacred Coconut), about 160nm north of Vava’u. We made the overnight trip last Tuesday uneventfully and pulled into the main anchorage early Wednesday morning, Read More …

Categories2009 Season, Raven, TongaTagsFatahi, Niuatoputapu

Whale Watching Day 1

Posted onAugust 21, 2009June 20, 2012Leave a comment

Our flight to Vava’u was uneventful except for the two-hour delay departing Tucson. Made us a bit nervous as the LAX-Tonga flight only goes once a week, so if we missed our connection we were Read More …

Categories2009 Season, Raven, TongaTagshumpback whale

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