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It’s a miracle the first seafarers ever found the Cook Islands/ Kūki 'Airani scattered across two million square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean. But every year, these tropical islands become the destination for over three thousand Humpback whales who’ve undertaken one of the longest migrations on the planet. They come here to socialise, mate, and raise their young. On Rarotonga’s shores, a group of land-loving fish known as blennies are on a journey just as epic, which offers a glimpse into our evolutionary past as they are in the process of leaving the sea to become landlubbers. The island’s reefs offer protection to numerous species including giant clams and green turtles. While in the skies above red-tailed tropicbirds court their mates on the wing, revealing an astonishing aerial ability but to feed their families they will have to avoid pirates. Paradise isn’t always what it seems, and an approaching storm could threaten everything.
