To Gili Bodo
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Fri 2 Sep 2016 22:47
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To Gili Bodo
 Half five this morning and just one squid fisherman was out.
 Off at six for our hop to Gili Bodo
using the local girl as a marker buoy.
 Up came the sun at quarter past six.
   Haze all
morning proved difficult on the view front...........
 Out at sea things needed a bit of
dodgem activity with the FADS.
 Lots of small
islets..........
 ............along this part of the north coast of Flores Island.
 Rounding Gili Bodo we saw an incredible anchorage. We had to dogleg between two
easily visible reefs (a gap of 120 metres) and settle amongst Coomera,
Matilda, Afar VI and Incognita.
 Uninhabited
except for a group of monkeys.
 We headed for the
gap and anchored in sand. The silence was incredible.
 A welcome from a
fisherman and his son.
 Todays
journey of thirty eight miles.
 Anchored,
not a lot of detail on the chartplotter.
 Time for a
snorkel. Swimming off the back of Beez Neez who had settled back
with five metres below, we soon crossed the sand to find the first of the
massive reef. The colours were not spectacular but the visibility certainly was.
I spent two hours bimbling about in the warm water with so much to see. Bruce
and Deb (Matilda) picked us up at half five to pop the few feet (had we
not been friends we would not be this close but it was so much fun to rib one
another – the old saying “a whole ocean to park and some boat almost touching”)
over to Catherine and John on Afar VI. What a fun evening talking about
Komodo dragons, orang utans, Bali and general chatter.
How lucky we are, so much so we are
going to stay another day in this tranquil and heavenly spot.
 ALL IN ALL WHAT BEAUTIFUL
ANCHORAGE
ANOTHER STUNNING JOURNEY TO A PARADISE
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