08:30.25S  121:48.72 E

Mausambi, Flores Island

Wednesday15th September

The Navionics electronic chart for this village in the province of Ende, middle of Flores did not give us any accurate information.  Thankfully we arrived at 1.30 p.m. and had overhead sun for us to thread our way into the most beautifully secure lagoon just behind a reef protecting us from the slight NE swell we had.

It’s just so nice to jump in the water and swim over to the reef and enjoy the coral and fish at low water.  It was quite good, we both spotted fish we had not seen before,  and there was plenty of varieties of soft coral competing with the encrusting corals on old pieces of coral.

This is just about the worst chart we had had for an anchorage, at least we could follow our track out next morning!

The fishermen on these two trimarans had their sleep interrupted by us as we snorkelled past them.  I think they sleep on board during the day to get away from all their kids screeming and playing on the shore!

 There is a resort here also, but we did not venture to use it as we had only just been to the resort the day before at Maumere.  The Indonesian Rally had taken the yachties out to visit a typical local village here to watch the women weaving, but we had already done that back at Saumlaki, and seen the locals the day before at the market.

We enjoyed a relaxing evening on the aft deck instead, David got a few more maintenance jobs done on the boat whilst Ollie and I were snorkelling

This lovely sunset gradually turned into

This fiery sky sunset