24/01/2024
Not quite a once in a lifetime chance but still a pretty rare and awesome opportunity to walk/run/cycle/skate/scooter🚶🏽♂️🏃🏻♀️🚴🏽♀️🛹🛴the Rarotonga International Airport Runway.
Seemed like half the island was there - including the PM (check out his wheels!) having a good old reminiscence about when he used to walk the runway regularly. Not for fun or exercise but as part of his job as a teenager in the 70s🕺🏼🪩🪮when he used to work on the runway lights - good money for back then too he reckons!
That wouldn’t have been that many years after👑Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the international airport in 1974 - which is what this is all about, celebrating🥳the airport’s upcoming 50th anniversary on January 29.
Meitaki Ma’ata to Airport Authority Cook Islands and all their staff for putting on such an amazing community event and dealing with all the logistics required. Same time next year ay? 😉
