24/08/13

Saturday 24th August

This is our last day in what Katy and Jeff call MormonLand, or the Garden of Eden, where the lion lies down with the lamb – or, on Rinca and Kode, the monkeys and deer lie down with the Komodo dragons…

Pete and I didn’t leave the boat. Well I did, for a swim, to look at bits of coral, small colonies of fish. It was all very pleasant; I had a slight frisson of fear when a large and faintly yucky plastic item wrapped itself around my leg – I thought maybe it was one of the livelier dragons, out for a swim, but – thank God – no… 

Pete stayed on board and looked at maps and charts and sundry info re anchorages etc, so that we can leave tomorrow to see yet another gloriously beautiful place.

Ingvar and Seija zipped around in their dinghy, and came back, all aglow, to report of the state of play on the other side of the bay – deer, monkeys, Komodo dragons all on the beach together…all mildly interested in the humans in their little boat. This, we are sure is NOT normal…the tourist boat people must be feeding the dragons, to keep them so docile…and to keep the deer and monkeys in a false sense of security!