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Last breakfast at our favourite Glass house.

We take a Garuda ATR72-600 to Komodo international airport.

Our driver picks us up and takes us to Golo Hilltop which is probably the best accommodation we stay at this holiday.  The view is also great.

After visiting the company that is going to take us to Rinca tomorrow we go to a restaurant and we all order pizza!

 

Today we go to a different beach closer to our hotel.  It’s not better and it has more people hassling us.  The only plus is that there is a turtle rescue centre nearby.

This morning some of the resort boats are out sailing.

In the afternoon we go back to our first beach and the low tide means we can walk to the little island.  There is even a clear sandy path through the plants to get there.  Alex and Gerd get there first and after that Alex guides the girls there.

While we’re there lots of fishermen turn up to catch fish.

Alex and Emma are making drawings and here is a picture of one of the dogs on the beach.  There seems to be a whole dog family frequenting this place.

Some boys are running kites on the beach.  They don’t look very big but they are at least man-high.

Alex has made a castle

The offerings make great sources of food to birds.  Normally little sparrows, but in this case a white dove.

 

 

 

 

 

We’re staying at Deco Rooms in Sanur.  It’s a nice little place and there’s a very good cafe (the Glass House) across the road.  We have breakfast and lunch there about 4 times.  We also do laundry at Deco rooms.  It’s very much a place to recover from our travels.

Emma uses shells to make a towel picture of Nemo.

Getting to the beach is harder than it should be from the map but we manage.  As we’re there there is a cremation or burning of an effigy (not sure which).  Afterwards the ashes are boated out and released at sea.  A friendly Balinese man explains it all to us and helps Alex cut a face out of a coconut.

Snorkling doesn’t work here – the water is too cloudy.  We don’t really like the beach here.  I fact we don’t really like Bali at all.  One thing that is cool is the enormous kites the kids fly.  They have bows attached to them that buzz loudly.

We have dinner at the “Swastika restaurant” which is really nice and friendly.

Power and telecoms lines overhead and us doing our diaries in Deco Rooms.