After an overnight 9 hour flight, Rarotonga is indeed a tropical paradise. Palm trees, coconuts, beaches, azure lagoons, buses labelled "clockwise" and "counter-clockwise".
Everything is situated on the road which follows the coast, 40km in total around the circumference of the island. In the middle is the remains of the volcano covered in jungle.

My hostel is right next to the beach.
I've got some bad sunburn
I went snorkelling and its ridiculous, like a tropical aquarium but just putting your head underwater a few metres off the beach.
The locals are all friendly nutters.
I climbed up a hill which included scaling a cliff at the summit for some great views.
And i've got a lot of mozzie bites.
And i've got 3 weeks left!
It's hot, humid with occasional deluges.