Niue

Oh I love the silence... apart from the the roosters and dogs. ;)
But you get used to them after a while. Rarotonga was the same, not so bad as
on Niue but enough to get prepared for it.
The Locals are extremely friendly and helpful with anything. Reminds me of Fakarava.
You feel that making money with you is not the main target. Its more like
sharing a nice piece of earth with you doing everything that you will never forget this
place.

The freediving is fantastic. First day in the water (only the habour) and we already saw
the endemism living sea krait (Katuali), eagle ray, whitetip reefsharks parrot fish (mhhh jummy)

and good growing and colorful corals all over the reef. The reef is "stuffed" with fish. 

No schools of big fish, but the ground is moving all the time.
Visibility (can be up to 80m!) is at the moment not the best, but with 40-50m not
bad at all ;) And what's best compared to Rarotonga, easy entry and depth 30m+ are
only 5min swim away.
We already had some tough training days, with over 60 dives under 20m+ in one session
Also the bottom time increased already ;)

The island itself is bigger as we thought. Maybe we will take the offer Mamatha (nice
"old" lady) made us, renting her spare car for a couple of days. 70-80% of the island
is green and I mean really green. Not only a couple of palms and ferns and bushes as
we expected (take a look on maps.google), more like a small rainforest/jungle.