Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on her experience with snorkelling in Rarotonga

Megan Singleton's been taking in Rarotonga, and she recently got the chance to try out a unique snorkelling experience.

She got the chance to try out sea scooter snorkelling, and she recapped her 'amazing' experience.

Read more about Megan's Rarotonga experience here. 

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks ATB Travel with Windy Woo tours Where
the World is Yours for now?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Joining me now is Meghan Singleton.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
Good morning, good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Now tell me we know you're in Raratonga. We all
were all feeling the fomo. But I want to hear
about the snorkeling. I believe you're never going to put
on a pair of flippers ever again.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I am so now convinced that sea scooter snorkeling is
the way to go. We just tried it out yesterday
and it was so good. So you just hold these
little devices not much bigger than a firmous flask, and
you hold them sort of under your pummy and you
can zoom along the water. You can either have your
face out or you've got your goggles half under the water.

(00:58):
You can go down and have a look. And it
was absolutely brilliant and so yeah, you don't even have
to kick. We had flippers on because you basically you
have a trigger, so you pull the trigger and then
when you let the trigger go, you suddenly stop. But
it's quite heavy, so you kind of go oh, Oh,
and you need your flippers to kind of treat a
little bit. Otherwise you loom past the turtles and not

(01:19):
see anything.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Just see all these like little people like missiles firing
in all different directions instead of stopping and running around.
It wouldn't feel right not to hempse.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, yeah, no, you need them because you're in the channel.
And the great thing is that you've got the power
to boost away, so you could go quite out when
the current was really still yesterday. You can go right
out to the edge of the reef to the channel,
which is pretty dangerous if you're you know, if it's
a big tide. And then you just turn on your
booster to level three and you come hurring back in.

(01:49):
I mean it was you go with the guide. It's
a guided to it. Unless you own one of these things.
Apparently they cost about two thousand dollars. I'm like, you
guys should sell these. I think you'd sell them really
well over here. Yeah, they're good fun.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Can you take I'd worry about dropping them.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, no, it's attached on your wrists, Yeah, yeah, definitelyople
Where was this second? This was part of Ariki Sea
Scooters tours. But there's another company that does them as well.
It might be Mowana if you just look up sea scooters.
In fact, I've pushed my blog post or Raratonga to
my front page today so people can have a look
at that. And just today at the Puanganui market where

(02:26):
I was at last time I spoke to because it's
Saturday here, they opened a brand new market hall that
can take seventy stall holders who now no longer have
to stand in any weather. And it was so much
excitement in there today that they just really it's just great.
It just brings it all under cover in an eight
million dollar building that the New Zealand government paid for.

(02:47):
So were you We should all go and visit it.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Praise Artatucky has an amazing reputation. I know that some
of the women on your tour went and had a
day trip.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
How was that.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
They loved it? They absolutely loved it. So you fly out,
get picked up quite early, like seven thirty or something,
come back here to the airport where I'm standing right now,
apologize for all the fuffles. Then you fly over to
Ida Tucky. You join a beautiful lagoon cruise tour, get
a chance to snorkel visit a few islands, and then
you're back on the plane and you're home by about

(03:21):
five thirty, so it's a long day. They absolutely loved it.
It's a taster, right, Like my advice would be stay
a couple of nights, but if that's all you've got,
go over, snorkel the lagoon, see the giant clamshells and
stand on one foot island and do all that sort
of stuff and snorkel in the crystal clear water and
then come back.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Sounds amazing, Meghan, Thank you so much. Travel home safe.
If you want to check out Meghan's blog about Raratana,
you can find it at blogger at large dot com.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
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