I flew to ‘Eua via tongatapu again, the flight from Tongatapu to ‘Eua, was on a tiny 8 seater plane and is maybe the shortest flight I’ve ever been on – only 8 minutes!! It was cool to be on a little plane travelling the 40kms between the 2 islands – my ears didn’t even pop. I stayed at Deep blue lodge on ‘Eua – it’s the accommodation owned by the dive company there – the accommodation has actually just been finished and I was actually their ...

On my second day in Tonga I was on the move again off to the Ha’apai group, being a bit of a flash packer I had opted to fly between the islands (I do feel bad about my carbon footprint – I took nearly as many flights on my Tonga trip as I have taken on my entire trip so far (7 to get to NZ via Africa and south America – v’s 6 just getting to and around Tonga) but the ferry is infrequent and unreliable and I only had 12 days). When I was given my boarding...

Anyone who’s spoken to me any time in the last 3 months or so will know I booked a trip to Tonga – I was almost as excited about this trip as I was about my entire trip – but again anyone who knows me knows I always counts down to holidays in a consistent and annoying way!!! Tonga certainly never appeared on my initial itinerary, although I was always a bit vague on the bit after New Zealand! If you’re wondering how I ended up going to Tonga – it went...