Woke up at 9:30am and had more dry toast and fried eggs in our guesthouse for breakfast!

Got to Razors tour selling shack for 10:15 and met Linda a French woman who was doing the snorkelling trip with us! We walked to the pier, excited thinking there was only going to be the three of us with the whole boat to ourselves!!

Guess again! When we arrived there were 70 other people doing the same trip on OUR boat! No wonder the trip only cost £7.50 for the day! They said the boat had a capacity of 70 yesterday and today it went up to 100! It was a squeeze getting the first 50 aboard without having to sit on some Russians knee!

With loads of Russian girls causing a fuss because they were promised a private boat and a Canadian girl hyperventilating in the corner because there was only 3 life jackets for 73 snorkelers and 4 staff, I was ready to go overboard!

I don't get seasick if the boat is moving and there's a breeze but when it's just bobbing there, rocking left to right my stomach could explode!

We finally set off and stopped at a dive site at the end of our island, we could've just walked to the end of our own beach and swam off shore ourselves! The guide then told us the weather was really bad and windy so we couldn't go to the shipwreck as promised! The weather at this point was glorious and boiling hot so how he can blame the weather il never know!

Jumped in anyway into the open ocean, it felt so good on the sunburn! There was coral formations dotted all over in the 5 mtre deep area and loads of the bio rock, man made reefs everywhere! The Tsunami and rising water temperature in this area is what caused all of the coral bleaching, so much was destroyed which is why the sand is so full of crushed, washed up coral! In the last four years local fishermen have been paid to stop fishing here ion the hopes that dish will inhabit the coral again! And it's worked!

The coral all around is bright and healthy and there's plenty of schools of fish that dosiley swim right up to me! The bio reef stuff obviously works but I did see one huge coral head around 2mtres wide, encrusting a rock which had been blown upside down either by the forceful weather or it had been knocked over by a boat! I felt so bad it must have taken years and years for it to get so large and colourful and now it's gonna die within a few days if that! Still, I'm hardly gonna swim down to the sand bed and start shifting boulders!

Another half hour on the boat to the next place off of Gilli Meno Island, where we saw 7 turtles! Two of them were a cute couple swimming shell by shell, fin in fin! Totes cute! We were only allowed to go down to stroke the shells of the ones that were resting at the bottom, the adventurous ones that swam up to the surface to breathe I think are biters! But we all had to let the current carry us along rather than swimming too hard and a got 79 flippers to the head! I swear people that don't know how to navigate there big dumb feet in order with their arms deserve to drown!

There was loads more coral here too, more natural, obviously wasn't affected by the environmental change! The seabed was just a mass of colourful tentacles and polyps swaying in the waves! Me and Annie who were now swimming alone, away from being smacked by flippers also saw a huge Mantis Shrimp! Today's cover photo is only a google image of what one looks like and it doesn't do it's bright colours any justice! It crawled so quickly along the sand using coral for shelter and whilst I was wondering how he'd taste on tonights barbecue with a fish sauce dressing, he was shaking his segments around and eyeing me up with his claws!

We took the boat to the final, Gilli Air Island and had lunch in a cool beach resort where everything was made from bamboo! There were private huts to eat in and also a treehouse like cabin which we moved to when the heavens opened! It turned windy too so we still got wet sitting in the tree house but there was no escaping it! More Mie Goreng, I think I'm turning into an Indonesian noodle! Maybe i should go as that for Halloween!

When we got back on the boat my only towel that I stole from our last hotel in Bali was drenched through with rain and seawater, perfect! Il only have to wait 8 hours to dry it out before I can shower tonight!!

They took us to the third and final site which was what I was most excited about, giant clams! Some 1mtre wide!! It would have been epic, the locals used to take the black pearls as a malaria remedy apparently! But seen as everyone was now soaked, the tour guide have us the option to go home which everyone took! 4 people, including us against 69 tacky tourists was never gonna win!

So off back home we went and everyone at the front of the boat got absolutely soaked by the crashing waves; brought me much pleasure! ;)

On the way home our Island was wet too and Annie fell flat on her face on the tiled floor going upto our room... Ouch!! I tried to ask if she was okay because it was a big fall but I felt so bad, I couldn't breathe for laughing! She falls over daily!

Had to go back to the days in Malaysia when I dried myself with an old T-shirt after a shower! I'm so lucky!

Went to eat along the beach and had local tea which tastes just the same as in England! A bit of a let down! And had black peppered chicken which I was told was a steak off of the BBQ made infront of us! It was more a dead chopped up dog cooked in a back alley somewhere with some yogurt poured ontop!

We went to go see Razor again to ask about going to Lombok tomorrow... It's along the coast of Bali so were taking a local fishing boat for 10Rupei/rabies (70p) and then going to hire Mopeds and drive to Monkey Forest and if we have time (with Annie's driving we probably won't) we'll go visit a temple and a waterfall too; all without a map! Wish us luck!

Ps didn't take my iPhone on the boat (good job too) as we didn't want to get then wet or stolen, so today's photo is the only time travelling where I've had to use a google image!... I feel I have failed my fellow bloggers :(