Debut - 28 July 2015

Tashi Delek
Mike & Carol Kefford
Tue 28 Jul 2015 06:40

05:44.70S 132:40.61E

 

Our first night also included a show of traditional local dances and a buffet supper.  All beautifully organised with the school turned in to a stage arena and restaurant where they fed about 150 people.  Excellent food and more dances then a representative from each country was called on the stage to receive a welcome gift bag.  We each received the same bag the next day but it was well done in showing just how many different nationalities were visiting the country as part of the Rally.

 

Although the village of Debut is mostly Christian the next two villages around us are Muslim so we are called to prayer five times a day, which is rather lovely as the sound drifts across the anchorage.

 

We also begun the protracted and complicated business of checking in to the country.  Actually our Rally LO Raymond Lesmana and his team did most of it behind the scenes, but we all had to be visited on the yachts by;  quarantine, immigration and customs.  Everyone’s experience appeared to be different but it was quite clear that they had been told to treat us lightly.  But we did end up having to have a bewildering number of papers and clearances.  The Customs Temporary Import papers were still not finished when we all eventually left Debut, but Raymond is being allowed to deliver them to us at our next official location on Buru island.

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So many different nationalities

 

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Island village and mosque

 

 

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Traditional fishing vessel

 

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Compare the size to the yachts in the background