Travel Drawings from Sketching in the Cook Islands
In September of 2013, I made these travel drawings sketching in the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands comprise a National Park administered by New Zealand, and it’s difficult to visit many of them. Captain Bob wanted to see Suwarrow because of the man who lived half his life there. We stayed at this one island for 4 days, swimming with manta rays and sharks, burning under the sun and playing gin rummy.
I was with Bob from Papeete, Tahiti, to Moorea, Bora Bora and onward to Suwarrow and American Samoa. Here’s a map of part of our sailing across the Pacifc.
We employed the whisker pole often in order to sail more into the wind. Here’s a diagram of the whisker pole and genoa.
This is a travel sketch on Suwarrow, in the Cook Islands. The sprouting coconuts offer a display that one would see everywhere if not for humans displacing coconuts on beaches.
Another travel drawing of Suwarrow in the Cook Islands. An utterly pristine beach, uncorrupted by the damning effects of man.
