The voyage to the Island Rapanui was smooth and I found my way to the camp ground quite easily.
I have now stayed in the island for few days camping in Mihinoa camp ground that has a cute concrete moai statue before the beach. It is now time to move to another site since Minohia was fully reserved since 1 years ago by some English astronomy association for few days.
Thanks to them we had new showers, which were in handmade huts outside. The site had wifi but there was that island type classic dial up connection issue and over crowded users.
The location hunt has been done on south, west and east side of the island and still deciding where I should shoot the total eclipse that is going to happen on the Island on 11th July 14:08. It all depends on the weather if we can see or not. But we have few reliable eclipse hunter around with many luck that I have a feeling we can see it in this remote island with mistarious statues of moais.
Aiming for some star trails, I went to CONAF to get a special pass (only 3 of us got. I think the chief liked me coming from Aotearoa) this morning to go into Ranoraraku at night, the mountain tht the moais originated.
Seems like the island´s time is going slowly. But as usual I am full of schedule and busy running around.