Black Pearl Charters

Your hosts on Black Pearl Charters are Mike and Mere, a friendly husband and wife team and Leo, a local identity with over 20 years experience in showing visitors our paradise both the island and in our lagoon. Please check out reviews on Tripadvisors for guests experiences with our team. Mike, who is half Aitutakian, and Mere, part NZ maori, are expat kiwis that have been operating Black Pearl Charters in Aitutaki since 2005. Mike (ex military) and Mere (a radiographer) both decided on a seachange at the end of Mikes military career. After travelling to Aitutaki for a holiday they decided to swap the undulating, tassocked covered, snowy hills of Waiouru, under Mt Ruapehu, for a coconut tree covered, reef and lagoon surrounded small island in the middle of the South Pacific called Aitutaki. Having always been keen recreational anglers in NZ this was the perfect opportunity to turn a passion into a career and so far its been going great. Black Pearl Charters has two boats operating, “The Black Pearl”, purposely set up for fishing and “The White Pearl”, set up for snorkelling. “The Black Pearl”, is a NZ made 7.2m Aluminium Pontoon Tsunami. The pontoons make this one of the most stable fishing platforms around and being a hard top provides protection from the elements. “The Black Pearl” is powered by a Yamaha 175hp four stroke outboard, very quiet, no fumes and very reliable.