Monday 16 April 2007

Bali!!!

Again i've left this thing for ages so lots to catch up on as usual. In my last Blog i mentioned how excited I was about the Whitsundays, well that turned out to be a waste of time. On the first day when we set off everything went ok, all though we were a little aprehensive as we had just learned that it was meant to be a "party" boat which we didn't really want but we thought that it couldn't be all that bad. So anyway, things were going fine, we got to the island where we were staying and all was well. The next day we were woken up at 6.30 am and got back on the boat for breakfast. 3 and a half hours later we were still in the harbour wondering why we weren't going anywhere, at this point we were told that the engine was broken and they didn't have a main sail on the boat! We were asked to wait on the boat for another hour or so while they tried to get someone to fix the boat but couldn't and we were told that we would have to stay on the island until a rescue boat could come for us. I'm not going to go into every detail of what went wrond cos we'd be here for ever but basically we were stuck on a rubbish island with rubbish food and nothing to do for 2 days and then didn't get any money back at the end of it all. So anyone reading this who's going to the Whitsundays don't choose the boat "Reality Is...", it's even got a rubbish name.

After the Whitsundays we made out way up to Cairns where we stayed for a few nights before flying back down south to Sydney. While we were in Cairns we took a boat trip out to the Great Barrier Reef to go Scuba diving. It was such a good day out especially in comparison with our whitsundays sailing trip! We left early in the morning and sailed out to near to Green Island where we dropped anchor and went diving. I thought I'd be really scared of diving because of all the sharks and stuff but i really enjoyed it. After the diving we were taken on a little speed boat to green island where we spent a couple of hours and then headed back to the boat for lunch which was amazing. During lunch there were loads of Reef Sharks hanging around our boat and we were feeding them meat and things, it was really amazing to see but also a little scary as we were going snorkelling after lunch. So, after lunch, when the sharks had gone, we got back in and saw lots of fish and coral and colours and more fish, it was fun. After the snorkelling it was time to go home so we sailed back to cairns drinking wine and eating fresh fruit and cheese and crackers and cake, it was such a good day.

We left Cairns the day after to Sydney and then to Perth for the night and then on to Bali, a very long way round to get there i know but for some reason that's the way we had to do it. So we're in Bali now and it's really really hot and very very cheap, we're on a weekly budget of 1,800,000Rp, thats right, i am a millionaire. We're staying in an amazing villa with two bedrooms and it's really fancy and it's costing about 5 pounds a night. There are thousand and thousands of people on scooters here, it's terrifying when you're in a car, i keep thinking the taxi's going to kill someone but it's kinda fun. We went to a water park today which was so much fun. There were loads of slides and a bar in the pool so you were sat on under water stools at the bar, i like that alot. Anyway, i think that brings me back to date. We're going to a monkey forest tomorrow with lots of temples so i'm looking forward to that.

1 comment:

Matt Brunning said...

Sounds like u are have a great time, hope your well, think me and ali are doing a the same stops as you up the east coast of oz. How long did it take you?

Matt