Neither of us slept well though so both our eyes are puffy, even though we slept much better than the first night! We had our earplugs last night because we were sailing right the way through the night and the waves were supposed to be bad because of us going further away from the islands.

We got woken up to Komodo National Park, the water was so so still. It looked almost like a lake. There was a fair bit of rubbish floating around the sea though which spoilt the scenery a little. I just want to get a big net and clean it all up!
All of the mountains looked fluffy, as if they had a dull khaki green fleeced jacket on. With a few trees sprouting around the place.
We had a tour guide to walk us around and a few other guides with long wooden sticks split at the ends in a ‘Y’ shape. It was to protect us from the Komodo Drgaons, if they come at us they can put the end of the ‘Y’ stick under their necks and it will push them back without hurting too much or killing them even.
They have 55+ bacteria’s on their tongue which can be used to kill their prey before they bite into them and tear them apart basically.
We seen two (a male and female) just sat chilling under a tree, absolutely bloody massive! The male got up to have a pee and poo and waddled over to another area where he was watching two deers, hmm I wouldn’t have fancied my chances with him! Even full grown at 200kg they can run super fast!!
They lay eggs in this huge pile of mud with a big hole down the middle of it, there was a nest with eggs in that the rangers were monitoring, laid in August. The female Komodo comes back in April to see the babies hatch and eats the ones she doesn’t bond with. Basically they only protect the eggs and once they hatch they just see the babies as food so the babies have to run for their lives and live up a tree until they’re a little older and stronger. Apparently they do it to monitor the population of komodos. Bizarre!

We seen another 4 or 5 wandering around the island, they were huge too. Casually sitting under a tree or walking through the bushes looking at which one of us he fancied for lunch.
It was pretty damn cool! They look like dinosaurs. Or that Godzilla character.

Afterwards we headed to Pink Beach just around the corner on the same island, the pink beach is made from broken red coral that has washed up on the beach and merged with the sand.
Before going over in the dingy boat again and Bart the driver we had lunch and spotted loads of dolphins playing on top of the water about 20metres from our boat, ah it’s all so lovely and lush and cool! Haha.
The water again is freezing but crystal clear, we could see about 10m down to the floor it was incredible.
Snorkelling was a little better this time around, the masks worked but put a lot of pressure on your face when trying to swim underneath the water to get s go pro video of the coral, up close and personal.
The current was strong, I was kicking my legs fast the entire time and not really moving anywhere.

After lunch which was a huge delicious barracuda that the captain caught whilst sailing yesterday off a hook that was just dangling from the top deck of the boat into the ocean (one of the crew members stabbed it with a hook to yank it out of the water whilst it was still wiggling) and pink beach; and watching the Chinese tourists do their Instagram posing in the sea for about 30 minutes (very funny! Even the French guy got in on it). We went to another beach, our own private long beach. All pink sand again with freezing crystal clear blue water, the beach was a lot pinker on this beach probably because there were no tourists on it hardly.

Broke my glasses so one of the crew members fixed it with some super glue, bloody typical I threw my flip flops out, he could have fixed them too!! :(
We all had a shower over the toilet when we got back I couldn’t wait to wash my hair, even though it wasn’t the cleanest of showers it was better than salty water and greasy sweaty hair.
Our last night tonight so we cracked opened the rice wine, it actually didn’t taste too bad with a dash of sprite. I think it was only us and one other person that were brave enough to buy the rice wine haha. It was better than Bintang though!

What a way to finish a day of pink beaches, dolphins and Komodo Dragons in the middle of the Flores sea watching the fluffy mountains that somehow resembled a Komodo dragons leg and feet the way they slope down. Spotting another manta flapping about next to us, this time a little smaller and black. He must have been playing with the dolphins that came up to play next to him.
Bloody beautiful!

We parked up at Pada Island to watch sunset and have dinner, quite a few other boats parked there too, I suppose we are closer to Flores now so lots more people will do shorted trips around all the little islands here.
After dinner we sat around to do some games,m hosted by captain (another one with a funny laugh ‘Aha aha ahaaaaa’ with his Moto of ‘never try, never know’) the first one was the cookie game which meant you had to lie down on your back and get the cookie from your forehead into your mouth without touching it with your hands. (I bossed it within about 5 seconds, haha!) there people taking forever with it! It was a cracking jammy dodger aswell.
The second was Bintang yoga, there was a beer Bintang box which you had to pick up off the floor with your mouth (the only thing that could be on the floor was your feet) every time we had all done a round he ripped more and more off, I somehow got to the last four people but couldn’t pick the flat piece of cardboard off the floor it was so difficult. I wasn’t ready to over stretch and hurt myself so I caved. The three girls went further and had to stand on 4 piled thin mattresses to bend down and pick it up - they all won a Bintang each as the prize.

Ready for bed at 9.15pm because of the 4.30am wake up call in the morning for the sunrise walk. Not going to be approachable at that time what so ever!

Cracking night, a fab setting with no internet connection - bliss!!