We took the "public boat" to Lombok at 8 am this morning. (I'm pretty sure it was the same boat we took over in the first place only we had to buy a ticket from an official booth.) Then took at shuttle bus that the other tourists came to call the musical shuttle because we seemed to keep dropping off and adding new people every five minutes. After three hours, we got to the southern tip of the island to Kuta Beach. I'm stationed at a restaurant again while N scouts out a decent place for a good price. I wait sweating a little puddle and looking longingly towards the ocean about a hundred meters away.
I think we are really going to enjoy it here. It's still low-season, so it's slow, but it seems like there is also a little bit more going on here.
Yesterday June 7 2013
We paid our hotel owner $20 to take us in his teeny tiny "day cruiser" to go snorkelling. Afterwards, we will check out Gili Trawangan (the party island of the three little Gili Islands). I wish we could have had my camera along, but it would have been the end of it with all the sea water. I never quite caught the hotel owners name though we grew quite fond of him.
We go out much deeper in the boat than we had could swim on our own. I was thrilled that we got to see three tortoises! I didn't realize how camouflaged they were, I didn't even see the one until our guy swam down and scared it enough that it started to swim. The other two we saw coming up out of the deep for a breath of air.
The whole time I had lines from Finding in my head. "The butt! Don't touch the butt!" And then I hit my head swimming right into the thing! And I just hear all those cute little voices as we swam near the "drop off".
We were both really glad we went out with the boat!
It was a good experience to visit Gili Trawangan, just to see it, but we were glad were not staying there—not our scene. It had much more going on and seemed like lots if fun but was nothing of the quiet paradise we enjoyed on Meno.
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