Thursday 4th June 2015
0 degrees 46.294S
130 degrees 53.634E
Batanta Island
24 metres, mangroves,
At 11am yesterday
we decided, after all, to leave our safe little floating pontoon in Waisai and
to start on our way to Sorong. We
slightly miscalculated the distance, and anchored halfway, on Batanta Island,
in a beautiful sheltered bay, lined with mangroves.
There were
hundreds of birds tweeting, trilling, squawking, in the lush jungle. I went for a swim to check out the coral
because we have decided that this anchorage will be a good place to take John
as soon as we leave Sorong. He will be
able to go for a swim, listen to the birds, enjoy the peace and quiet.
And then the next
day – on to even more beautiful Raja Ampat islands!
We met Jemimah and
Randy in Monserat, in the Gulf of Davao.
Jemimah has become my Facebook friend and I have pinched one of the
photos she put on one of her posts recently.
Just because…it is a nice cheery photo and meeting Jemimah and Randy is
worth remembering.
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| Jemimah's selfy |
0 degrees 53.116S
131 degrees 15.650E
Sorong (Indonesian PNG)
18m depth
We arrived here at
10.30am and spent the WHOLE day in Immigration, with an extra few hours in an
off-shoot of the Jabatan Laut (Harbour Master) office.
I spent most of
the time waiting waiting waiting thinking about…the birds in the lovely bay on
Batanta island…
At dusk last night we heard
loud squawking and there, silhouetted against the clouds, was a flock of big hornbills,
going from one side of the bay to the other in small groups.
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| Glorious hornbills! |
Sorong is just
fine but…I would prefer to be with the birds and the fish!!
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