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This is the outer barrier reef on the west side of Home Island. You can see the cruising boats in the distance, mostly on moorings. Your host family was in charge of bringing you through the reef in their skiff. It’s not really completely clear why they don’t want people to come inside the lagoon. Boats that can get inside at Aitutaki could get inside here as well. They did blast the entrance once but stopped saying it hurt fishing. Fishy sounding to us. Bob said one or two boats had polluted the lagoon before as well. Think that would be really hard to do unless you went out of your way to do so. Some folks think it would give the host less control of the guest. We may never know.
Palmerston Atoll – Cook Islands
July 20, 2010