We spend a week of boat maintenance, re-provisioning, re-fueling, filling water tanks, laundering bed linen, drying mattresses and carpet,cleaning the boat. We hire a lad to do the cleaning. The guys purchase an air conditioner to dry the inside of the boat. Mitch organises new steering cables in Perth and Sam and Josh arrive in Bali with a bag of nuts, bolts and boat fixing stuff.
In between this time, many friends fly in for Heather's 50th birthday dinner at The Three Monkeys. It is a brilliant week of socialising, surfing, eating, chatting, swimming and shopping. Many thanks to fantastic friends from Perth, Melbourne and Brunei who helped celebrate.
We organise local sim's for phones and laptops. We do our final shopping at Hardys in Sanur then fill the esky with ice and bintang before and leaving Benoa Harbour. Our friends Kate, Lisa, Meridee and David join us for the sail to our first destination at Serangan. We stop for a swim on the way as the heat is stifling. We are joined by a sea snake which is a bit disconcerting. Apparently if we don't bother them, they won't bother us ... mmm. We don't swim at Sarangan as it is a bit grubby with lots of rubbish and weed. Graeme runs our visitors into Sanur in the dinghy and later we dine at a warung on the beach. Overnight there is thunder, lightning and torrential rain. Heather sleeps through it all to the disbelief of the gang. We leave early for Nusa Lembongan the next morning.
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| Dusk at Serangan |
Happy Birthday Heather, hope you had a fabulous one. Loving the blog and the photos. You all look like you are having a fabulous time. Janette xxx
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