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Down the Rabbit Hole || Exploring Rarotonga, Cook Islands
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- čas přidán 16. 08. 2024
- Today we’re climbing one of the tallest mountains on the island for an epic view and we get sucked down the rabbit hole on the legendary Mt. Raemaru.
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Seriously, the people we’ve met on Rarotonga have been amazing. One day I ran out of cash at a cafe and the lady behind the counter loaned me her scooter to go to the ATM. That would never happen in the USA.
Then we met Dion & Marcelle. They made it their personal mission to make sure we had a killer time on their island. After a full tour of Raro, Marcelle took us to her favorite cafe for coffee and brunch then she gave us her car!!! Yea. Crazy right?!?
First big adventure she told us to: Hike the legendary Raemaru trek up the mountain. The most famous mountain in all of the Cook Islands.
It’s the first real trail we’ve seen since Mt. Quilotoa in Ecuador (watch it here: www.gonewithth..., and it’s definitely the most interactive trail we’ve ever hiked. From the QR code signs, to the hunt for red passion fruit and guava, and the rope assisted vertical ascent to the top…this hike is LEGIT! Beautiful weather, stunning scenery and some
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Oh, and that bash between my camera and the tree…it’s not the first time that poor Sony has been beaten up on a hike. I can’t believe that thing still works. 🎥
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- Jason, Nikki, Cleo and Singa 😻
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Here next to me is my hubby watching whatever he is watching on tv and me…. With my headphones watching your adventures!!! A thousand times better than any huge comercial production!! I’m just super happy I’m still years behind so I can keep watching like 20 episodes a day 😂😂😂😂😂
I came home this evening after a particularly difficult shift, poured a “sundowner” and adventures with my favorite sailing couple, the mighty Wynn’s. You two have no idea the restorative and recuperative power your videos provide me. Saying “thank you” is not enough. Just know that I can face another day because I can leave it all behind when I watch you explore. 👍😉🥰⛵️
Awe, thanks for coming along & being part of the virtual crew. 😻
What an amazing hike with amazing views. That's why we do what we do, to get to those places you can only get to by exploring. Loved that view of the sun shining through the clouds, such a serine and spiritual moment. Thank you for sharing your adventures. Have a blessed and safe day wherever you are!!!
Wow! you guys, thank you for that awesome hike. As you were describing it at the end of the video, I too said Pacific North West. I lived there for several years and loved hiking in the foothills and mountains. The Cook Islands look amazing. What an awesome way to see the world. Fair winds and safe travels to you and yours. Rae
I have found with traveling, that the unplanned and the unexpected, are some of the best adventures! Thank you, as always, for taking us along!❤️💜
My Sunday Winns fix, I can finally start my day...What a beautiful place, thanks for taking me there.
Think 70 years young and living at 5000 feet. Key, think young at heart and stay fit . Thank you for sharing your adventures, I do enjoy your videos.
I hope we’re living our adventure at 70 too...it could very well be in the mountains.
Thx for sharing with us landlubbers. I am only stuck for a short time now. It will be like someone left the gate open😜😜🌊🏄🏼♂️🧜🏼♀️
I have to ask , did U2 try the Wim Hof Method I mentioned this weekend. It is perfect fit for your already super lifestyle 🌬🥶❤️🙏🏼🌊🦋
Such great hospitality from everyone on the island! Sure makes a port-of-call even better!WOW, that was a "LEGIT" hike !! and amazing views too! Thanks for taking us on the adventure!Fair Wynns and Following Seas Curiosity!
You continue to amaze me with your adventures and the places you go. Thank you for taking me along. Safe travel you four.
Thanks guys that some real beautiful scenery. From your fans here in the Central Florida swamps stay safe we love y'all.🐾
Wow. Your hike up the mountain made me feel as though I was right there with you. I've gotten too old (74) to do that so I thank you, yet again, for letting me tag along. When you got towards the top and were in the wind and light rain it was magical.
Awe, thanks for coming with us!😻
My wife and I loved Roratonga we hiked the Needle it was a great time looking forward to your next video
Thanks again, when I was up those hills, there were no tracks or ropes etc. Thanks and God bless you two.
What a hike and climb up the mountain. Well done and nice video. Thank you. 👍👍⛵️
I know how you feel. I lived in Europe for 9.5 years and never went to any English speaking country. Then returned to the good ole USA and had to wrap my brain around full time English again. It took me 6 months to feel comfortable. Great vid. Thanks.
haha, too funny.
Just before you said "PNW" I had just thought it. I love how your music has become more and more relaxed as you spend more of your adventures in the South Pacific. You don't have any thump thump music, which I do find slightly irritating when on other sites. Travel safe and thank you so much for your amazing gift of sharing your world.
Oh gosh I jusy adore watching you guys live. It takes me places I will never go as a young adventurous person I can't ever be again. 🤗
cup of coffee in hand,time for the wynns its a sunday win............
Bottle of Beer, but the same idea.
Incredible views of the tree/foliage covered mountains...they're what I imagine Earth looked like before humans arrived...such beauty ! It makes me sad to think what we have destroyed as a species.... Thanks for the beautiful insight.....
All the best !
Thank you for NOT saying " foilage ".
What was I thinking they can’t keep this up but to my surprise you did great video beautiful photography nice storytelling and as always I love your spirit of adventure can’t wait for next Sunday Funday
We were lucky enough to get "stuck" in the Cook Islands (Raro and Aitutaki) for 3 months this year thanks to Covid ;-) Love to promote the islands, now! Great video!
Kristian Oye Most definitely worse places to be in quarantine!😉
An impressive hike in an incredibly beautiful place. Love the inclusion of the 360 video bits. We love our Insta 360, so much flexibility and captures things you might otherwise miss! 😀
yea, as long as it's not overused I think it's a fun addition to a vid. :)
Just gotta say ... "I love you guys!!!" Thanks for another great video. I'm hooked!
YEA BABY! 😍
I am impressed, you get to see everything you can at a time when most Americans think the world begins at the Atlantic east coast and finishes at the pacific west coast.
ha, that is true...
Williams said everything there is to find to make a good life can be found in your own backyard. Others believe it all germinates from inside oneself. In your case your yard happens to stretch far and wide.
It should be on a t-shirt " I Don`t Know Were I`m Going But I`ll Know When I Get There"
Love this video! I really look forward to your videos ever week. You guys are so enjoyable to watch, love the relax you have. So intelligent too! 😉
😂 OMG Nikki ... I just noticed you bought that hat from an earlier video! I loooooved it then & it looks faaaabulous! 👍
Right, it's a fun one.
We were their twice over 20 years ago. People in the Cook Islands are so friendly. The island law is that you can’t sell your land. But you can give it to your children. So there weren’t any chain hotels or resorts. Just locally owned places to stay. Neighbors share their crops and catch so they don’t even know what welfare is. At low tide in the morning you found ladies in the shallows picking up sea slugs and piercing them with a knife, squeezing them and catching what looked like angel hair pasta in their bucket to eat. They put the sea slug back to “Milk” another day. The reef around the island is beautiful. 25 meters outside the breakers your in 15 meters of water. 100 meters out your in 30 meters of water. 125 meters out your in over 500 meters of deep ocean water. Really an underwater cliff. And Sooo clear visibility. Hope you get to dive. Really enjoy and have fun. You two are great adventurers.
Wow that was a heck of a climb and an equally heck of a descent. Absolutely beautiful place. That’s a place a guy, ( and girl ) could spend a lot of time. It would be a tough decision to leave there.
And you do this without getting lost ! Wow 😯
Nikki is a great story teller. And that camera work where you made it look like you were in a hole was just awesome.
It's so enjoyable travelling along with with Nikki and Jas, a real treat indeed. A nature trail with QR Stations -well that's taking advantage of moderna technica. Just love your story telling. Cheers.
One word description: amazing! Thanks for taking us along.
Lovely , just lovely , as always , just lovely , even when you get a little pissed off, just lovely .
Wonderful, just wonderful views - stunning, lovely.
My God, what an awesome hike...Wowww. Now that is one heck of a super place to visit. Love it! Thanks Jason and Nikki! Cheers! 🍷🍹🍻👍😎
Don't look down!!!! Love the climb 😍
We enjoyed Raru a few months ago. Great people, good food and fun adventures in and out of the water. Thanks for sharing your visit.
What an incredible day you had! Very inspiring.
Awesome people and gorgeous scenery! Have and always enjoy! Thank You I loved it!
It is extremely inhibiting combining videoing with hiking. That, followed by professional, high-quality editing deserves many kudos. OUTSTANDING.
I am so glad to watch this as so many good kind nice people.
Thanks for sharing again, just beautiful guys thank you 👍👍🇺🇸
Wow... May love an honor come your way with all my heart you guys are so brave I look up to you happy trails🌹🌱🐛🐢🌾🌾🌾🌾🌾
Another big thumbs up a great hike with the Wayne my favorite couple selling the ocean finding out the destination little take them to
You guys are getting good at this video stuff. You & SLV are my 2 favorites.
🦋 It’s always refreshing to see how you’re amazed by nature’s little pleasures. Thanks for the discoveries thru your camera ! Cheers 🥂
Even in the RV we'd see chipmunks or deer and spend an hour watching them. A lot of people think "oh it's just another deer" but I think the little things are just as awesome as the big ones.
A beautiful place in the pacific and people so friendly , I think cook island and Fiji would be my pick love them
What a view! Had a similar experience, not quite as nice though, on a mountain in Puerto Rico in the rain forest. Amazing changes in the environment as you get altitude. Thanks so much for sharing.
Wow, guys! This was beautiful! And that trail looked like a legit workout, too! I do enjoy your posts; keep up the great work. :-)
Very nice hike! Love watching you guys, so adventurous! 🙌
O what a Beautiful island . Thank you for taking us along !!!!!!!!!
I climbed this exact mountain there is a beautiful veiw
Been there 16 times, love the people love the environment, Cross island walk is great.
Glad you're loving 'Raro' - we did on our visit.
The Cook Islands are definitely on my bucket list =)
I love the photography of the thumbnail and the video effect at the top of the mountain. Such amazing shots. I hope we get that good one day. Thanks for sharing!
That view at 11:55! Breathtakingly beautiful
Great vid guys. It would hard to say what is the best thing about your travels, the things you see or the people you meet.
Do you two ever look for Geocaches? some amazing locations for hides! love the 'feel' you give of these places.
Thank you both for another beautiful Sunday. I am up in Montana after a snowstorm. What a contrast !
Awesome! Love your hat Nikki. Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic views. Thanks for sharing you guys rock. I look so forward to you videos each week
Awesome as always you two!!
Another awesome adventure day. Love watching you guys as you explore another little piece of this majestic planet.
Hard to believe that you've been sailing for 2 and half years. I've been following your adventure since you re-riged before heading to Panama.
Looking forward to next week's video.
Amazing hike, Amazing island and Amazing people as showcased in the previous 2 Cook Island episodes.
Thanks for a peek down the rabbit hole, your videos are awesome and really appreciated.
Views priceless as the personal give and take with good people. What a DEAL!
Another Win for the Wynn’s all around fun life
Well, that was way too short! Ha ha!! We love the Wynns!!
English is our second language. Most oldies still speak the lingo and they understand English but might reply to you in Cook Island Maori. The Needle is that rock sticking out above the trees across from you guys. I did that hike when I was in primary school. We ended up in Wigmore Falls. When I was 16, I hiked to the Needle to catch up with a church group crossing the Island only to realize that it was cancelled. Back then the trail was still wild... :) Now, I am 52, I will only hike across the plains LOL
Man that Ray of sun sunshine is definitely the life
Cook Islands is on my bucket list too, nearly went once, but one day🌞
Don't wait, do :D
Well done climbing that!! It's going to be great seeing ya's climb the Needle next week (or will they chicken out?) :-) Thanks sharing once again, you guys rock!
I drove around Ireland for 10 days a couple of years ago. I learned very quickly to call it the "other" side of the road! ha Within hours, I became pretty good at driving on the other side of the road. After 10 days and then returning to Tennessee, I had to remind myself which way to look when pulling out! ha
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The climb looked kind of similar to the Glasshouse Mountains, near where we live. Definitely not somewhere to be caught when it rains, so kudos for hustling back down. Jason and Nikki, yet another excellent production, and we are loving the doco type feel that these vids have. Again, very well done. Andy and Jo.
At least the car had the steering wheel on the same side as the boat!
Also descents like that are probably making you wish you'd traded the drone for a hang glider. :)
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I so enjoyed this mornings video! What an absolutely beautiful experience it looks like you had. I especially loved that hike. I was thinking how at my age and present physical condition that trail would be such a challenge for me and my wife, AND then you got to the part where there was a rope for climbing the rocks ! Shew !
I so enjoyed climbs like that in my younger years and you had me reminiscing about the “good ole days”! I would still try it today and I would EVENTUALLY make it up to enjoy that awesome view. Ha Ha !
Thank you so much for sharing your lives with us. I so enjoy are 15 minutes together !
Our pleasure to have you along for the adventure. 😍
What a special hike looks stunning and seems like you are hating every minute of it
That's not true. We stopped to smell the flowers, appreciate the butterflies, the history, the wind, the views, the massive taro leaves.....
Thoroughly enjoyed your video this AM💕 as always and what a gorgeous picture of the sun peeking out over the lagoon, good capture!
Another wonderful show!!! Love you guys! And thank you (again!!!!)
And them climbs on the trail we’re serious! Beautiful hike tho!
Absolutely stunning. What a place to visit.
I never wanted more until it’s video!!!! What an amazing place!!
A truly amazing place.
Thanks for my sunday-vacation! ;-) Great video - as always!
Marriage is difficult. There will be ups and downs. I can't imagine living in a closed environment like that...you two are troopers.
I'm a Raro, never seen beautiful.. view like this and it reminds me of my hiking time.. back on mt tekou.
Next time you guys are looking for a idea. How about a comparing the monthly cost of living on a boat opposed to the motor home. I know the initial cost of the boat was more. Its the cost of living i would be interested in.
When you add in maintenance, no doubt boats are more expensive. That's because you can just add a 0 to the cost of anything that says "marine." If you're interested & haven't see it, there is a blog post covering their cruising expenses for a year in the Bahamas. You can check it out here: www.gonewiththewynns.com/cost-sail-bahamas Hope that helps!
Curious Minion
New Zealand has that same diversity. U could be hiking a glacier in the morning, walking through a fern filled jurassic park style jungle in the afternoon & spend ur evening on the beach. Or hike up a desolate volcano & find ur self descending into a nordic style pine forest. Nuts, beautiful & friendly.
Can't wait!
I am enjoying it so much through your experience and looking forward to find the video with the other hike of the needle. I have done that hike once in 2016, legit as well 😂❤❤❤ Can really relate to connecting more, deeper and with more ease while talking in same native languages. Thanks for sharing 😊
Love the pictures of the beautiful Island. Wish you a great and safe week
That's not a hike guys. That's mountain climbing. Awesome :)
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WOW! Thanks for taking us along!
Wow! That vertical climb with ropes is intense! Nicely done. Thanks for sharing your adventures!
Thank you guys to help me re-live my time in Rarotonga (1999) - BEAUTIFULLY captured.
Thank you for bringing us along on your hike up the mountain. Epic experience, gorgeous views and another wonderful episode!
Wow! What great scenery!
I follow many cruisers and your the only one so far that I know explored the Cook Islands!
And yet, another great video. What a hike....gorgeous views. Glad to see the locals re so nice.