Flying Boat Fish n Chips

10/05/2024

Safe Seas for our Vaka Marumaru Atua, Captain Peia Patai and crew.
Departed this morning from Avarua Wharf for Hawaii.

18/07/2021

01/11/2020

Back-Packy 😂👌

Patukino Williams putting the "Horse" in Packhorse 5.3kg - nabbing this solid one over the weekend with Coastal Fishing Charters 's Arron Sargent.

Mean work boys - solid Cray!

19/05/2020

Ngapoko Ben Goldie’s life will be celebrated at the Game Fishing Club this afternoon. You could hear her piercing voice; before you even saw her. Fie...

15/05/2020

We can always count on our aunties to make us laugh 🤣 You can usually hear them long before you even see them ❤️

02/05/2020

Meanwhile here's Scotty... not long to go till he's back on the rock.

HUMANS OF THE COOK ISLANDS – ITI TANGATA O TE KUKI AIRANI

Scott Jensen who resides in Tupapa, Rarotonga has an interesting story of Kuki Kindness while here in New Zealand on lockdown. He has worked as the Spare Parts Manager at Motor Centre for the past 13 years. This is his story -

“I had a trip planned to visit my daughter in Perth for her 20th birthday. I was to depart on 13 March and a week before I left Rarotonga the NZ bone marrow donor organisation contacted me to ask if I would be willing to donate bone marrow for my older sister who is suffering from cancer. I did not hesitate so they couriered two test tubes to Rarotonga for which I had blood drawn at the Rarotonga hospital and sent back to NZ.

I headed off to Perth and while I was in the air, Covid19 saw many border-entry rules change thus on my return into NZ on 19th of March I was barred from transiting through New Zealand to board my plane back home to Rarotonga.
I had to self-isolate for two weeks at my brothers place in Auckland, but then my return plans started changing daily, and New Zealand also went into Alert Level 4 lockdown which also saw further changes happen.

While in isolation in Auckland the bone marrow people contacted me to say my blood tissue type was a perfect match and they would like to take advantage of my lockdown stay to get the procedure done. This procedure involved removing some of my bone marrow for my sister. At this stage I was hoping to be flying out sooner rather than later so they moved heaven and earth to get me into the system.

First I had to undergo a Lab test place for which 12 separate tubes of blood was taken. This was followed up with x-rays, an Electrocardiogram (ECG), and full medical at Auckland hospital. I then needed to go to NZ blood service to get my arm veins checked out!! A few days later I was advised I was fit and well, a suitable candidate, and my schedule was revealed. I had to have a Covid19 test, as part of the preparation process for the operation – two days later I was advised the results were negative.

Five days before the operation I had to self-inject into my stomach twice a day for five days. This was to stimulate bone marrow production in my body. This proved very painful - a bit like having dengue fever.

When the day of the procedure arrived, I was dropped off at NZ Blood services and the op took six hours. They circulated 16 litres of my blood through a machine and harvested 325ml of my bone marrow. It was a long time lying down with arms flat down with needles in both arms, not being able to move.

I am so proud to have been able to do this for my sister. It has been the one ray of sunshine during all the dramas of trying to get home. I know I am free from Covid19, having undergone the strictest of safety and hygiene processes and steps required to make this all happen – I’d go through this all again for her.”

Our prayers go out to your sister from us Scott. Thank you for sharing your acts of Kuki kindness with us all.

01/09/2019

28/08/2019

Manihiki’s Apii Tukao students are excited to share with us this week their short stories, kindly provided by principal Apii Napa. NEWSPAPER Hello I...

28/08/2019

Irakau William, on board My Girls, was rewarded twice for his efforts in the two-day Gary Parlour fishing competition at the weekend. He claiming th...

28/08/2019

The 23rd annual Gary Parlour game fishing contest is to conclude today, with the chase on for the first and best wahoo over 30kg. According to the sc...

03/08/2019

Jason's catch

Jason Tuara’s mega whopping 415.5kg (916.1775 pounds) marlin is a sure thing for our record books. Although not quite a ‘grander’, Tuara is wowed, thr...

02/07/2019

This Weekend, Friday 5th and Saturday 6th July, pls note SPEARING, POITO or ROD N REEL is allowed in this Competition, meitaki korereka to our proud sponsors VONNIAS

02/03/2019

Kevin Selam landed a 241.3 kg marlin yesterday.

27/02/2019

she's resting...

26/02/2019

There she goes...