Tippy top of eastern Indonesia 🌊🌊🌊

Super 😔 to leave beautiful Wayag, but I soon cheered up as next 🏝 was stunning & I got another Mantas dive 😀, what a perfect end to our Raja exploring. After a big motor ⛵️ the next day, we are in North Malaku & back into "remote" indo... & we ❤️ it, travelling off the tourist 👣 the locals wave, smile & are super eager to meet you.
Arrived Sayafi 🏝, ⚓️ down late, knackered, but not enough to stop Ted paddeling out next morning, to a small but perfect dust off wave after 8 months off 👌.
Ted excited at 🏄‍♂️ possibilities, we continue to push north, kept busy dodging 🎣 boats, sqalls & logs. OtD did a stint as a tug 🚢 when our buddy boat, SV Sheer Tenacity, had some motor troubles... old girl did us proud, managing to maintain speed of 5knt under tow 🤯.
A night of wild weather had us tucking into Teluk Bay with the big fishing boats, not able to reach Tobelo, the main village of Halmamera Island, until the next day....where we then stayed for 4 days within the shoaling reef of the outer islands, enjoying stunning views of🌋 ⛱️ 🌊 & village kids arvo visits (who ensured we have enough 🥥 to last a month)
With fuel & food supplies topped up, we continued north, to Dodola 🏝 (dive with 🧜‍♀️ & enjoy beach 🔥 /tea) & then up to top of Morotai Island to await swell 🤞🤞.
Ted lucked out with 4 days of 🌊, starting his campaign with a small tube... each day he started 😁 & finished 🫠. We met fellow sailors as 3 other ⛵️ boats had travelled for the swell... great crew on waves & new friends. #surf 📸 taken by Ted.
We ⚓️ in front of Sopi village, super friendly people.. especially Annie, who owns homestay just up from the beach. We loved our time here, highlights being... trek through forest & 🌴 🌴🌴🌴 farms to local waterfall, beach walks, yummy homestay meals & getting to know people's.
Alas, the swell passed & with an NW wind making the anchorage SUPER rolly we have set off again... heading south (1st time since leaving home) as we reached the top of Eastern Indonesia 🥳... any further, we would be in the Philippines 😆Read more