Friday 28th August 2015
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| Another beautiful volcano |
Once again we
managed our overnight trip without any disasters, frights, seasickness. But now I am SO tired I can hardly speak, or
type…
01 degrees 27.601N
125 degrees 14.646E
Pulau Lembeh – channel
6 metres depth
Apart from the
fact that an overnighter really means no
sleep at all, it has been frantically windy today, and that is exhausting
in any case.
There is a very
big town on this island – Bitung – with a very busy port.
We managed to find
a sheltered little bay, after much poking around and looking for rather more
time than we had bargained for. We
arrived here around midday but weren’t really settled in a secure anchorage
until 3pm.
There is a small
settlement in the bay, with a lot of rubbish, cheery crowds of people getting
on and off small ferryboats, and a very happy little tribe of – pigs! Pigs are such a rare sight in Indonesia! I was very taken with these ones. They are the same dark grey as the beach and
they charge around on the sand in a small happy pack.
Three boys braved
the water and swam out, a bit tentatively, to visit. We gave them some honeycomb chocolate, which
they ate in awed silence, and then Pete read them The Waterhole, which
absolutely enthralled them.
And now I am just
about asleep with my face planted on the keyboard…
I love the story book idea and this is such a great book. Don't they want to stick their fingers into the waterhole???
ReplyDeleteAnd how efficient and ready those boats look, all lined up like soldiers.
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Yes of course they all stick their fingers in the hole!
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