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We are sailing...again

Off work and ready for adventure. Whilst our destination planning is loose, we are prepared for lots of fun, sailing, sunsets, stunning places & a few pucker moments. Goal 1, 3 mths+ in Kimberley's WA; Goal 2, 6 mths in Indo; Goal 3, TBA 🤣 Okumaya devam et
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    Raja fun with crew... continued

    5–12 Şub, Endonezya ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

    Week 2: Leaving Friwin Island, with julie (🪵 👀) out the front, we ⛵️ west along the bottom of Gam 🏝 to Yanggelo 🏝 & one of the best 🥇 snorkelling spots we have visited so far. We ⚓️ near an abandoned homestay, well protected from occasional squalls & out of busy tourist traffic. We found hard and soft 🪸 growing in the currents around the island & a myriad of 🐟🐠 , including wrass, coral trout, clownfish, batfish, and even a big mangrove jack. Above water, we had beautiful 🦜🦜 songs in the surrounding mangrove jungle & watched 2 herons fishing off the old jetty (perfect sundowner 🍺 spoz). We swam, padle boarded, snorkelled... & then snorkelled some more over an amazing 2 night stay.
    Then, wrapping up a 2-week Raja tour, we left to look for Manta cleaning station @ Bantanta 🏝, arriving early arvo everyone straight into swimming gear & water... super excited. After a little bit, we located the favourite spot/ rock cluster & the Mantas circling in for their grooming session. Unfortunately, a strong tial movement meant it wasn't the clearest, but this didn't diminish our WOW at watching such magical creatures 😍.
    Back on OtD, the weather changed quickly 🌬⛈️🌧 & we soon had 🌊 come over the bow. With self-appointed & 🦇💩 crazy Storm Riders (Julie & Ma) getting drenched out the front, we pushed out & around the corner to a more protected anchorage for the night. We buzz back 1st thing in the morning to learn that Manta beauty treatments don't start early. While waiting, Ma & I jumped in to check out the nearby reef....we quickly jumped back out when a 🐊 joined us 😆. (previous post).
    Travelling east along top of Bantanta, we stop 1 night (& washed) at Waterfall Bay & 1 night Ayumi 🏝. Here we swam, snorkelled & chilled on the ⛱️ for hours... sustained by coconuts 🥥 😋
    We travelled into Sorong on the 12th, through 🌞☁️⛅️⛈️🌧, so the crew could get sorted for early ✈️ the next day... as it was stinky hot, & to distract our 😔 crew, we spent the arvo watching 🚢 🚣‍♂️ 🛥 🛶 ⛵️ with🍺 🍟 down @ the Marina.
    With big hugs, we said goodbye 👋 ... super greatfull for Ma, Pa & Jules leaving us with topped up on laughs, love and fun memories ❤️

    Fun facts about Clownfish (video)
    THEY....
    * are common here in Raja. We have been lucky to spot several different types ... big, small, pink face, black stripe, racing stripe & and Nemo's extended family.
    * are carnivorous omnivores & can grow to 11cm, average being 8cm
    * perform an elaborate dance with anemone before taking up residence.
    * have a layer of mucus on their skin that makes them immune to the anemone fish eating lethal sting    Okumaya devam et

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    Surprise swim with 🐊

    10 Şubat, Halmahera Sea ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    Mum & I had a surprise visitor join our morning snorkel - Pulau Dayang, Raja Ampat 😳
    Ted estimate 🐊 1.2/2 metre. We were in area to see Manta Ray cleaning station in action so definitely go more of a unique experience than expected 😅Okumaya devam et

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    Raja Ampat adventures continue 😊

    19–26 Şub, Halmahera Sea ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

    Leaving Sorong 19th Feb, we are provisioned up to explore more remote Indonesian treasures for 6-8 weeks. Our very rough plan is to head north to Wayag (🍒 of Raga Ampat), then west to North Malaku (🏄‍♂️& 🌋), then travel south a bit before crossing to Sulawesi (🤿🐠🐬🐢🦈🪸) to travel slowly down the coast & end up @ Flores/komodo/lombok islands 🏝 ??? As always, the weather 🌬 god is the boss, so we will continue to enjoy the good days, make plans hoping to have lots of these & then change plans when we don't 🤣.
    Our highlights, in reverse order, of northern push (so far)
    🌟 Kawe 🏝. As we arrived, we crossed 0 degrees latitude and, in doing so, ceased being "pollywogs" and became “shellbacks”. To celebrate this momentous occasion, I opted for clothes swap, 🍾 & 🍺, Ted however jumped overboard & swam butt naked around OtD despite local🐊 warnings 😲. We made sure to pay homage to Neptune by offering up our sliver coins & shot of rum.
    🌟 Piaynemo 🏝 . We tucked OtD out of the tourist traffic (fav spot for views & diving) and spent 3 amazing days exploring above & below water... we saw preditor fish hunting/crashing, rainbow 🪸 gardens, more clownfish & a e en managed to catch a pygmy seahorse on 📷.
    🌟 Fam 🏝 group. 😍 stunning 🪸 & 🐟 and so peaceful we stayed an extra night...plus nearby homestay served cold 🍺 & yummy Mia Goreng 🍜.

    🤔Ted's tips for equator crossing. Yep, I google fact check as sounded like 💩 only to discover Ted was right 🤯!!
    * Sailors who have never crossed the equator are known as 'pollywogs' or 'tadpoles', those who have already paid their respects to Neptune are known as 'shellbacks
    * Crossing the equator was a right of passage for sailing rookies and is to be celebrated with a ceremony.
    * Script "King Neptune, ruler of the seas, we honour you as we prepare to cross this sacred line into the North hemisphere and ask for your blessing in our continued sailing. We are your humble servants and offer you. libations in return for your protection. "    Okumaya devam et

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    Wayag 🏝 Wonderfulness

    27 Şub–5 Mar, Endonezya ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C

    We finally reached the top of Raja Ampat, and boy, it was worth all those nautical miles to get here. What an absolutely mind 🤯 beautiful paradise, too far away, with no accommodation & bit too expensive for many travellers, it has a quiet, untouched feel that adds to the WOW!!!
    Our 👀 wide with 🤩, we cruised into the middle of Wayag through the mini mountains of volcanic rock surrounded by turquoise waters, to the most perfect ⚓️ spot ever...tucked in, white sand, chrystal clear water & a little beach .
    At this point, I know Ted will be dragging me out of here.. 😩😫😢😭 and that was before I got to have daily dives with Manta Rays 😲.
    Wayag is quite different from other areas of Raja Ampat... tiny clownfish traded for giant clams, fan coral for brain coral gardens & a choice of beautiful white beaches & black tip sharks in abundance.
    What a spot to celebrate our 32nd wedding anniversary 🥰, plus arrival @ our key destination & that no one has been seriously hurt or gone over board unwilling after 8 months of 24/ 7 ⛵️ together 😆. We climb ⛰️, 🏊‍♀️, 🤿 and wrap up a perfect day with 🌅 on 🏖, 🍻 & 🔥 (with 🔥🪰s)... bloody awesome!!!
    Sadly, our 📷 can't capture the true WOW of this amazing place 😍.. we feel very 🙌 🫶 xxx

    Majestic Mantas... my daily dive buddies
    🌟 Nope, they are not doing a ❤️ dance for me (dad 😆)... apparently, when they encounter dense patches of plankton, they use somersault movements to stay within the feeding zone longer. Barrel rolling also helps them create a vortex that draws more plankton into their mouths.
    🌟 they can keep looping over and over to gain more and more plankton as they don't get dizzy, another reason why twirling is the most effective way to collect food.
    🌟 Manta rays can live between 50 – 75 years old. Old mate (in video) was a bit tattered looking and was missing his eye and mantle... pedatory sharks or propellers??    Okumaya devam et

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    Tippy top of eastern Indonesia 🌊🌊🌊

    3–18 Mar, Endonezya ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

    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 😆    Okumaya devam et

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    West we go!!!

    Waymaking south

    19–30 Mar, Endonezya ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    Many miles of only light to no winds with occasional squalls & strong tidal currents, monotonous motoring broken up with night stopovers, surprise 🏝 waterfalls, happy kiddies, provisioning, 🤿, 🎣 & 🚢 dodging.
    As we ⛵️ down Morotai 🏝, Ted spotted a waterfall gushing straight into the ocean, so we pulled in to check it out (⚓️ down-motors running-paddle in) excited for a fresh 💧 rinse... little did we know a big squall 20min later would soon soak us & collect 200ltr water 🤣.
    We stop in at Supu village, hoping for 🌊, sadly for Teddles the wind/swell didn't align, so after 2 rocky nights we moved on to Salangadeke Island, a lovely FLAT anchorage with little village 1/2 on stilts & happy-go-lucky kiddies, who took us on a tour... we felt a bit like the pidepippers as more & more kids join. Later that day, we dropped off a pile of OZ school stuff to the teachers, which led us to having surprise night visits from Village reps offering to do our washing/anything... they even sent someone out to check that we are OK in a big storm 🙌.
    We left as it also had 🕌 with massive 🔊 that blared till 2am, restarting at 5 am 😬 (Ramadam). Next stop, thankfully, was quiet, so we caught up on 😴 & enjoyed more waterfalls before heading off toward the city of Tenate to do our provisioning, located on 🏝 🌋. Only 2 nights here as its super exposed to wind & tricky anchorage...we nearly melted the winch after 5 goes to hook up, initially hooking a huge pot & then repeated dragging across rock 😞 ..to top it off ⚓️ in front of 🕌🕌🕌🕌🕌🕌 about 500m apart with their 🔊 playing different prayer 🎶 all hrs ...our 👂 & 🧠 🫠 so we exit asap. Our next stopovers, we made sure to find quiet 🤫 spots, some with 🤿, all with roof 🍻 watching beautiful sunsets.
    Passage making = long days, with occasional need to naviate around big 🚢 & barge tugs when paths cross, catching 🎣 lots of plastic bags & 1 unlucky mackerel for tea. We are sitting at the bottom of North Malaku, a little (a lot) travel weary, but ready & excited to head west to Sulawesi... 🤞🤞🤞we get some 🌬 assistance.    Okumaya devam et

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    Sulawasi...so far 🤩😊😳🤔😟

    31 Mar–10 Nis, Endonezya ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    We left Obi 🏝 early, with lots of miles & shipping traffic to get through to reach Mangoli 🏝 before sunset. Obi, sadly, was mostly stripped of its forest... we only saw a little village at the watersedge with the rest being mining operations 😞. After a huge day, we arrived just before dark to a ripping tide (3knt +)... a very quick ⚓️ drop, arrival 🍺, 🍽 & 🛌.
    For the next few days, we travel west along the island, making as many miles as possible with no wind & crazy tides that were more often against us than with us. We had to pull up at its worse... a 5knt + tide against & going 0.1knt with both motors at full revs 😲. Frustrated at slow progress, we decided to cut the corner & day/night/day down into SE Sulawesi.
    We had a great overnight passage... flat seas but no wind. Heaps of traffic & FADs closer to land, leaving at 11am we ensure light for launch & arrival. We got to our 1st Atoll anchorage early arvo, plenty of time for 😴 before exploring. It felt surreal to stay in the middle of the ocean, no land in sight, & only shallow reef for protection... a reef which saved us when wild weather hit unexpectedly.
    After a rock-n-roll night, we moved on to Labengke 🏝, arriving late arvo to a stunning anchorage that looks very similar to Misool- Raja Ampat. After nice sleep in, we set off for 👀 ⛱️ 🤿, 1st checking 🐊 situation with locals " buaya di sini?". Stunning vistas, very friendly locals, & protected anchorage made it hard to leave... our highlights being camping next to ⛰️, Red Beach, dingy rescue of local tour boat, finding the hidden blue lakes.
    Unfortunately, from the west side of Labengke, the small bits of main island Sulawesi that we could see were stripped of forest. We were shocked to realise, after watching CH7 program about solar batteries/ dirty nickel, we are travelling through the middle of 🇨🇳 mining operations in Indonesia (North Malaku/Sulawesi). It is super concerning just how close this is happening to the beautiful villages, forests, corals, and ocean life we have been immersed in for the last few months 😞
    With 👀 on a potential cyclone brewing between 🇮🇩 & 🇦🇺, we left early, making plans on the run. Our crossroad Qs... Do we race down to Flores (5 days/night push) before a week of strong westerlys hit? or Do we hold up high and explore nearby Wakatobi Marine Park at risk of a 2-week delay to our journey southwest to meet family mid-May in Lombok???

    FYI... Wakatobi won, an amazing place to celebrate Ted's birthday, in the company & home of the Bajau (water gypsy) people. 📸 in next footprint.

    Sad stories 😢 https://projectmultatuli.org/en/nickel-mining-o…    Okumaya devam et

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    ❤️ Wakatobi & meeting Bajau Sea Gypsies

    8–14 Nis, Endonezya ⋅ 🌩️ 29 °C

    We are soooooooo glad we visited the Wakatobi Marine Park, whilst a bit out of our way, it was 👌...& a blast for Ted who has been reading/ watching documentaries for years about the Bajau sea gypsies.
    We arrive at Wangi-wangi 🏝 in the afternoon, very greatfull for daylight passage as FADs were everywhere 😲. We tied up to an abandoned marina as it looked to be still in good nick, & met Mr. Albar (harbour master, diver master, Bajau community eldrer, and a truck load of other good stuff) who sorted a scooter for us. After a big ⛵️ day & and stoked to be in civilisation, we spoiled ourselves with dinner out... big spenders 😆 $10oz for 2🍜 and a 🍺.
    We had a great time 🛵 exploring ⛩️🕌 🏖🤿, & "interesting" times eating a lunch with unknown content 🤔 & getting indo hair cuts 😱. Laughing so hard at Ted's (no hair left) cut, it took 5 min to get me back on 🛵. If only we had stopped there, finding a different ✂️ Ted was soon 🤣 at my "burnt bob" distress.
    We enjoyed a lovely meal & conversation with Albar, it was so good to hear about the Bajau people, who as ocean nomads are not recognised by any nation & how they are working to try save their culture, livelihood & 🪸 🐟 🐠.
    The next day was Teddles 🎂 🥳 🎉 so we left to Hoga Island 🏝 5-6hrs away, our home for the week & for a special dinner @resort. We were met by Mr. Duda as we ⚓️, who helped us nail the 👌 spot, & with fantastic English told us about Bajau stilt village & pointed us in the right direction for Resort ...which was actually a lovely little home stay on the beach. Here, our gracious host, Ms. Wai, served up the yummiest meal we have had so far in Indo & spoilt Ted with birthday pumpkin 🎂 & a beach candle (ted 53 so 🔥 bomb very fitting). Bar other passing sailors, we were Wai's only guests for a long time, Covid/5 yr no flights = no guests 😞.
    The next morning, Duda took us snorkelling to a protected reef/dropoff, which is extra special in an area where the Bajau fishermen work hard to provide & survive. We swam for hours & saw a crocodile fish, sea snakes, turtles, rays, an unusual nemo & a stunning range of🌈 🪸 s. Unfortunately, we also saw lots of rubbish because at this time of year, Wakatobi beaches collect the 🌎 floating trash. In the arvo, we visited Duda' s lovely home & family. We learnt the Bajau tribe live on & are sustained by the ocean. Their kiddies are swimmers as babies, with some diving by 5yrs. After walking through the village & fitted out with new bajau diving googles, we left amazed & humbled at their way of life & friendliness.
    We loved our stay here, highlights being the above experiences ➕️ buying super fresh fish off sea gypsies, more snorkelling, daily beach sundowners with Wai & her daughter...this wonderful week was topped off with Ted spearfishing with Bajau diver, Kudang ...Ted 🐟, Kudang 🐟 🐟 🐟 🐟 🐟 .
    😔 & promising to return, we left at sunrise...off to Pasar Wajo to provision for the next big passage south

    Some of the great dudes we met here were part of Ted's fav Bajau documentary, Jago: A Life Underwater
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5141686/?ref_=mv_desc    Okumaya devam et

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    Labuan Bajo, Flores & Komodo 🤩

    14–28 Nis, Endonezya ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    Busy & 😁 times...
    We arrived at Pasar Wajo late, with just enough light to navigate through a multitude of FADs and moored fishing boats 😲. We engaged local contact Andi to help with provisioning tasks, who was so amazing, in 1 day we managed to sort market shopping, 2 x180ltr fuel runs & be ready to leave 🌞 up.
    A day/night/day passage to arrive @ an Atoll in Taka Bonerate National Park. As a big blow was forcast, we ran for protection the next morning... this ended up being a challenging & long day. Our beloved Starlink chose this day, when we alone, in the middle of unmapped atolls & reefs, to intermittently work which = on/off access to satellite imagery 😱.
    Weary but thankfull, we ⚓️ @ Tanahjampa Island, tucked in behind a ⛰️ Blowing for 3 days, we had time for boat jobs, enjoying RnR, 🛵 explore (village, farms & shrimp) & the lovely company of SV Skybird crew. Unfortunately, due to strong winds🌬, we didn't get to see the Bugis boat builders (famous craftsmen of Pinisi Schooners) at work on nearby Bonerate 🏝,...on To Do List for next time.
    Weatherman gave 👍 so we pushed south, leaving in arvo, night ⛵️ with stunningly Milkyway 🌟 & meteor shower, arriving safely @ Flores with enough light to navigate the 🤯 traffic of Labuan Bajo harbour, gateway to Komodo national park.
    We are definitely not in remote Indo anymore... Pinisi tourist boats in the 100s, peakhour in the water all hrs, full of other foreigners & our meal out went from $10 to $100 😲.
    After 2 busy days & refilled with the essentials.. ⛽️ 🍺 & 🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬 (1st lettuce in 4 months), we enter Komodo with our expectations tempered (not fans of "touristy") to be 😲 at its vast, rugged beauty & its wildlife, in & out of the water.
    Travelling always with the tide, which is BOSS & sometimes in Pinisi peakhour, we managed to find tucked away 💎 anchorages, secluded ⛱️ & special one on one moments with the wildlife. Our highlights... snorkelling with 5 feeding mantas, a speedy drift dive through a coral/fish wonderland & hunting for Komodo 🐲 with local dude...& a big stick.
    Feeling totally 🙌 & super chilled from our Komodo time, we decided to catch the wind out...yep, I said wind (finally, our sails are up & full), so onto Sumbawa we go.

    Bit of info about Pinisi building... https://indonesia.travel/cn/en/explore-indonesi…    Okumaya devam et

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    Sumbawa, full of surprises 🤩

    29 Nis–8 May, Endonezya ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    Sumbawa = lots of unexpected fun 😲
    Leaving Komodo super chilled, we were ready for some serious passage making 😉, i.e., big days motoring, no snorkelling, no exploration stops 😢. Lol, our plans quickly changed to include a ⛰️ crater hike, surprise visitors, sleepovers, whale sharks & surf ❤️.
    With wind in our sails & making good progress, I convinced Ted (with a wee bit of begging) that we had plenty of time for a 4 day detour to swim with whale sharks... top of my 🪣 list.
    Our revised trip plan gave us the opportunity to invite Hilly & his lovely family, who own & manage Lakey Peak Surf Haven for a boat adventure. Amazingly, they made it happen at short notice, driving 4hrs across to us, bringing not only their wonderful selves for a sleepover but lots of yummy, fresh goodies. 24hrs together.... lots of 😁, some 🎣🤿 😴 & unfortunately a little bit of 🤢🤮, before the Hill tribe returned to their fortnighlty (& crazy long 🤪) Sumbawa/Lombock/Bali commute (🏘🚙⛴️🚙⛴️ 🚙🏡 -🚙⛴️🚙⛴️ 🚙🏘) for school & business Thank you, Hill Family, for sharing yourselves & loads of local knowhow....we in awe & still not sure how you pull it off... we won't be winging about our 10-hour drive to Perth again 🫠
    With a 4am start 😱 the next day, we travelled with sailing buddies SV Sheer Tenacity across Saleh Bay in a took-took boat, arriving at 🌅 to find several whale sharks at the back of a fishing boat. It took 3 minutes to get my snorkelling gear on & into the water... It took 3 hrs to get me back out 😆. What an amazing, mind-blowing experience.... 6 sharks came & went, not caring that I was floating alongside them. Whilst gathering at the boats was initiated by the sharks many years ago, the fishermen now mix a small amount of shrimp with slashing water to keep them interested. The local conservation centre reports 77% return & these are mostly juveniles. We read mixed views about the practice of feeding the sharks for tourism...our experience was its still very local/low key here, it was obvious the operators work together & with conservation efforts & when Ted climbed up on the fishing boat (of course he did), he saw they only use a tiny amount of food.
    We were back on ⛵️ by noon to pull ⚓️ & catch the tide out as a growing swell meant a 2nd detour....Ted🤞to get 🌊 & 🏄‍♂️ along SW Sumbawa. Tides definitely rule the roost here... we are either racing along with 2-3knts extra or going 🐌 pace. The scenery is different too.. coastline is mostly rural/ farming with wandering 🐄 🐎 🐐 on the beaches.
    Navigating down the straight between Sumbawa & Lombok was an interesting mix of dodging ferries ⛴️, fighting ripping tides & trying to capture wind so we pulled up @ 1st surf 🏄‍♂️ break, about 1/2 way down the coast. This ended up being a good call as huge swell made lower anchorages gnarly. Unfortunately, for goofy footer Ted, the break Northern Rights is... no surprise, a right 😆 so in between some stoinker rides, there were also a few dunkings & close moments with the reef.
    Our Sumbawa time has been wonderful... wrapped up with fun, food & the Speedy's (Cindy & Sierra), who drove up from Tropicals, for a surprise sleepover, bringing so many amazing food goodies 🦀 🦐 🐟 🍇 🍍🍅🍉🍈🍆🥕🌽🧀 🧈 🥚🍶☕️🍺🍺🍺 that Ted & I are still joy eating 😋 .... especially our favs from Oz ❤️. Thank you Speedy's for your company (we felt like we were home) & being super Indo shoppers. More visits for sure as we will be hanging out on neighbouring 🏝 Lombok.
    The current plan is to make Del Ray Marina our homebase for a few months (until we fly home end of July), & OtDs home for a bit longer as we are leaving her in Indo instead of racing back to OZ this year.

    If interested, info on Sumbawa Whale Shark conservation....
    https://whalesharksalehbay.com/whale-shark-sale…    Okumaya devam et

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    Lombok ❤️ family fun time

    10 May–5 Haz, Endonezya ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    After a busy 5 months ⛵️ indo, exploring the Lombok area has been super chill... lazy days with lots of laughter, swimming, eating out & most exciting, FAMILY!!!
    I have summarised our adventures into pre fam & with fam 😆
    PRE FAM. With our special guests due in a few weeks & a mile long list of jobs, we planed a quick passage down west lombok to Gili Gede 🏝/Marina Del Ray (MDR), which is where OtD will live for a bit.
    Well, our "wont" power def needs some work as a 1 night stopover at the top Gili islands became 3 @ discovery of friendly turtles, cosy beach bungalows & long happy hour(s) 😉.
    We eventually got to MDR mid-May in time to pick up our allotted mooring, chug back an arrival 🍺 & book a sea taxi to Bali for the following day....Ted needing to see a Doktor Gigi (dentist) for his mud 🦀 tooth injury.
    Our 1st impressions of Marina are positive, but admit we a little bit horrified at the amount of passing rubbish washed down from Lombok after a big rain 😞. With boat jobs done & a few days to kill, we motored across to the southwest corner of Lombok, home of 🌊 Deserts. We found a nice anchorage nearby but 🏄‍♂️ was super busy ( 40+). Returning to MDR, we left OtD shipshape & 🚗 to Kuta Lombok... via Matteran village for essential visitor supplies (🍺🥂🍾🧈🥓🧀🍞🍍🍉🥑🍏).
    WITH FAM. As a birthday surprise for my sister Vicki, we booked into a stunning villa overlooking the coast & filled it to the brim with family, which made for lots of good times, 🤣 &❤️. It was a perfect way to celebrate 🥳 50 yrs of Vicki.
    After 3 days, Ted & I & the grandies set off back to the boat to enjoy some special catch-up time. Teeka, Vicki & Andrew joined us 2 days later & with everyone onboard, we were off to explore the southern Gili 🏝 before heading north to Gili Air (our fav). Here we had an amazing week together... nothing was planned, the weather was perfect & everyone chilled. Our adventures wrapped up with a bit of Lombok exploring, a waterfall hike (piggybacking for kiddies) & more delicious food.
    On the 5th, waving teary goodbyes, we felt both super sad & blessed.
    🙌 as it was wonderful to have had OtD full of family again, but 😔 as it made us extra homesick. How do we remedy this??? Get our butts back to the boat & book our ✈️ home 😆.    Okumaya devam et

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  • We are sailing...again
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    Its a wrap 🎬 ...for now

    6 Haz–14 Tem, Endonezya ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C

    BACK in OZ ☺️, 410 ocean sunsets, approx 7000 nautical miles, & a tonne of adventure later. It has been bloody amaze balls... 🙏 to explore the less travelled... to have our days filled with surpising moments/places... to meet beautiful people... to share goodtimes with fam & friends.. & to survive & thrive living together 24/7 in a 12x7m box.
    Our favs: For me, 🤿& 🎥 stunning 🪸, clown fish, tropical 🐠 and predator 🐟, Manta rays, whale sharks, eels, sea snakes, 🐢, 🐙, seahorses, reef 🦈...even a sneaky 🐊!!! For Ted, enjoying each new day of ??? & opportunity to surf special remote, super popular & a few secret uncrowed breaks.
    On top of ⛵️, memorable challenges include climbs, hikes & sweating buckets to see stunning vistas, waterfalls & billabongs, getting lost often, desperate to find 🥦🍏🥬 (ok, me) & bumbling our way through indo communications & monies.
    Our top 10 places...
    Kimberley: Crocodile Creek, Dugong Bay, Montegue Sound, King George River & Burkley River.
    Indo: Kai Islands, Misool & Wayag of Raja Ampat, Wakatobie Marine Park & Lombok.
    This last month we have ⛵️Lombok /Sumbawa in RnR mode, enjoying beautiful anchorages, company of good friends (thx Watts & Speedy 's) & lots of surf & snorkelling.
    Whilst 😔 to pause trip we are keen to go 🏡... its been too long away from family & friends.
    Our boat baby, OtD, is clean, packed up & safe on a mooring. Im not going to lie, we 🫣anticipate our transition back will be a bit rough 😳🤯😵‍💫, especially to working life & temp from 🫠 to 🥶.

    We sign off now dear people, we have 🥰 having you along for the ⛵️. Thanks for the ❤️, wonderful comments & support... untill next ⛵️ tnt xxx    Okumaya devam et

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