Aitutaki is so perfectly suited to marooned ... Accepting our fate, we continued our stroll around One Foot Island counting numerous advantages for the marooned traveller. Fish and coconuts ...

Aitutaki is, hands down, the most beautiful. Guide Ali Maao blows a conch shell to signal the tour boat s departure from One Foot Island during a half-day cruise of Aitutaki's blue lagoons.( ...

Fishing in Aitutaki lagoon.Credit ... are disconcerting but they are harmless – we head to Tapuaetai, or One Foot Island. The giant trevally, about six of them, follow behind, while on top ...

Aitutaki Lagoon in the Cook Islands. I never did find out why the shuttle driver was called Captain Terrible — my accommodation was a two-minute drive from the airstrip so I didn't get a chance ...

Photograph by Adrienne Pitts Tapuaetai (One Foot Island) is one of 15 islets in the Aitutaki atoll. The clear, blue waters of the lagoon are home to green and hawksbill turtles as well as eagle ...

This stunning destination happens to be One Foot Island, also known as Tapuae Ta'i, a tiny island in the Aitutaki atoll of the 15 that make up the Cook Islands. "IM GONNA CRY WHY ARENT WE HERE ...

Alas, the dad was not long for this world, but his boy went undetected and survived. One Foot Island, Aitutaki. Picture: David Kirkland/Cook Islands Tourism Down the track, a quirky little ...

On my previous visit to Aitutaki, I savoured the joys of One Foot Island, famed for its passport stamp office, so this time I asked Quinton to whisk me across the crisp palette of lagoon blues ...

Everyone waves to me on Aitutaki, and no one locks doors ... bike, car and foot to the oldest church in the Cook Islands, in the village of Arutanga. And then I'm back in Rarotonga, and now ...

Aitutaki Lagoon Private Island Resort is a popular option with overwater bungalows, similarly to those at Bora Bora. The adults-only resort floats over one of the world's most beautiful lagoons ...