Sailing around the World ( presently in Bali. Indonesia )
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sat 11 Sep 2010 03:22
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FRIDAY 10th
SEPTEMBER 2010
The 3 senior members of the boat had a well
deserved lie in, Skipper totally wrecked from
sitting in busses for the last few weeks.
Thinking about it, we certainly travelled some 2500
km in a couple of days in Darwin and now about 600km in 2 days..
Aileen
loves and thrives on this , while skipper just
wilts completly.
Today, at least we are only going on a half day
trip, primarily to see the Monkey forest. and the bus leaves the marina at
13.30hrs.
Before we set off, we did some boat cleaning and
had long chats with with Paul and Susanne from Rally control.
Aileen and Sue from " Voyageur" went off to do a
little shopping and returned around 12.30 hrs.
Terry made some light sandwiches for lunch and then
the 3 musketeers Aileen, Stephen and Terry jumped aboard the bus
and
off we went again,
Meanwhile the two N's went off to the beach with
all the other young people and do whatever young people normally do
!
So, after an hour on the bus, we stopped at a well
run terraced rice farm, and walked through the paddi fields to the farm
house
where we had coke, fanta, and juices , plus
something small to nibble on, actually very tasty it was and made from tapioca
and sweet potatoe.
Then we drove off to " The Royal Temple of Mengwi"
built in 1643 and is still in reasonable condition.
An interesting thing here was lots of people
fishing through out the waters of the temple, of course we had to stop and stare
for a while.
Following that, went set off again on our merry way
to the sacred - Monkey Forrest - this place is home to hundreds
of indigenous monkies.
but again the entrance , like the entrances to
almost all the Temples, were cluttered with lots and lots of stalls selling
every from unusual bottle openers in the shape of a
penis, to elephants., all made from a local hardwood.
The detail and craftmanship is excellent. and then
there were the usual stall selling material and clothes with every colour
under the sun,
Monkies are monkies, and they were all over the
place, jumping up on people if they thought you had any food, and they had their
very own
sacred Temple, how about
that,
Skipper got to hold a " Flying Fox" one
of those big fruit Bats, and we have some snaps to prove it all.
Terry refused point blank to hold one, and Aileen
was not very enthuastic either.
Then, all back into the bus once more, Thats
ourselves, the Swiss 4 from Arriane, and a british couple on their
honeymoon.
we set off the the coast again, further west this
time, to see " Tanah Lot" a Temple sitting on top of a huge rock on
the sea shore.
We were supposed the get a fantastic view of this
at sunset, except the sunset was cloudy, so nothing spectacular here
today.
All back in the bus again,, Skipper was exhausted
again, more headaches from all this driving , not to mention a sore ass
from
sitting down for days on end.
20.00hrs We arrived back at the marina.
wrecked again,
Skipper tried skyping on the laptop, but failed,
the thing crashed and no one could get it working again. blinking usless
piece of sh*****
Ohhhh, One of our N's has gone, left, for
home,,,
Yes , Niall had to return home due to a family
illness, and we are awwaiting news of his return.
We had dinner in the yacht club, and on our way
back to the boat, we got waylaid at " Voyageur " and had many night
caps
before eventually retiring to our
scratchers.
Sick of tours, we had a good nights
sleep.
Thats all for now.
Signed :- Stephen
Hyde ( Skipper )
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