Shocked rather than angry we were consoled by a very sympathetic member of Indonesia's tourism industry. Toto shalt not blacken their name, but we will never pay upfront again, you lose your leverage and the tour guide losses his incentive! The kind gentlemen swiftly arranged for a new driver to take us the rest of the way. Faith slightly dented we continued our journey with our new driver, Lexi. Our first stop was Blue Stone Beach, sadly being ruined by th...

Up with the crack of dawn we made our way excitably to the dive centre, continuing our run of luck, the weather again scuppered our plans and we were once agin left twirling our thumbs. Unwilling to waste another day we made our way to the port in the hope of convincing a local boat made to take us to Rinca (Rincha) the closer of the two Komodo Dragon inhabited islands. Money talks and we found ourselves heading out into the bay in extremely upset weather. Thirty...