Our good friends, whom we’ve known for over 20 years, came to visit us. They left the snow in Sandpoint to get a taste of summer in the South Pacific.
In Tongan, ‘pangai’ means royal, and ‘motu’ means island.
So Pangaimotu means ‘royal island’. It is, indeed. Pangaimotu Island is just over a mile northeast of the harbor in Nuku’alofa, but it feels a world apart. The day we were there, only a handful of visitors were at Big Mama’s Cafe, and we saw only one person on our circumnavigation of the island.
Phil and Jan's Adventure in Tonga 