I wasn’t sure how I would sleep last night as they stopped sailing at around 10pm and restated at 2am. I could hear everything and tossed and turned all night through the bobbing and swaying and tummy turning waves. My back isn’t too bad, I have stretched and the mattress is surprisingly okay to sleep on even though I had to keep rolling over side to side.
I wasn’t too happy at the early morning wake up call(s) once from Ellie poking me and once from the guide shouting ‘bat wake up!’ I must look like a different person or someone who has been punched in the face when I wake up because everyone I feel just stares at me and smiles awkwardly. I cannot wake up or function in the mornings - what so ever!
For breakfast we had two pieces of toast stuck together with what tasted like sugar, it wasn’t great for me anyways. For Ellie it reminded her of childhood having sugar sandwiches - I didn’t know that was a thing!? Not my cup of tea anyways!
Ellie’s eyelids are peeling this morning, that was definitely a sunburn and not an allergic reaction to her eyeliner!
We arrived in Moyo Island, just us and another boat, nobody near us on the island. There’s only around 1000 people who live on the island itself. We got the little boat to shore 10 by 10 and walked into the island to a waterfall, it wasn’t at all very spectacular because it hasn’t rained here in months but it was a fresh water waterfall we could walk through and up to a 5m deep pool at the top which we could jump in. The stone was weird it wasn’t slippery but it had lots of grip and was rough. The pool was freezing but so refreshing, Ellie followed after a little or a lot of persuading by the guide, she needs practice with her monkey feet.
After we got back down we noticed a centipede the length of our forearm big fat and red crawling down a rock and under someone’s bag. Haha not nice the creepy little thing!
We got back to the beach and sat for a while, we did try snorkelling because the water was so damn clear and blue it’s hard not to get in. (For me anyways, water baby!) the snorkels were crap though so we didn’t last long and the coral wasn’t too great so not an awful lot to see.
After that at around 11am we had to sail for almost 20 hours because we were going so far over to Komodo national park tomorrow. So we sunbathed on our front on our back, on our side, legs over the edge of the board standing up, rolling around and tried not to let the sea wind fool us into thinking the sun wasn’t strong or hot.
We did stop for an hour or so to jump off the boat, Ellie wasn’t a fan of jumping after her incident in Cyprus jumping off a rock. But she did get in - sliding into the water from the ladder on bottom deck.
The water is so cold here, it’s lovey but bloody freezing when you first get in!
The current was insanely strong so we weren’t able to anchor properly so we set off again.
But here’s a thing to document and write in the diary guys...
1st October 2019, approximately 12pm, on a boat just north east of the West Nusa Tenggara Island, 49days before her 27th Birthday... Ellie has sprouted two very grey hairs on the top of her head in her hairline parting!
They stood out like a sore thumb!
Nevertheless Beth to the rescue, I had to pull them out of her head. Ellie was devastated! Haha! Now she wants me to go through her hair like a monkey looking for flees to check for anymore, that’ll be fun when we get back on land! Haha she’s going to have to repay me with plaiting my hair a few times ;). Winner winner chicken dinner!
We spotted a humongous white manta ray flapping about on the surface to the side of our boat, that was pretty damn cool! Again, I just wanted to jump in and swim with it.
We were supposed to be going to manta point on this trip but the government have closed the area to large boats and only allowing so many people in a year with a maximum of 10 people per boat are able to attend the area and snorkel or dive. Maybe - hopefully we will get to swim with them in Fiji or Philippines!
The stars were even better tonight, we saw lots of shooting stars aswell. They only thing we couldn’t stand was the crap chat that the bunch of younger travellers were chatting. They hadn’t stopped talking all day from 7am until now at 7/8pm about absolutely nothing only how ‘f***ing amazing’ everything was in this and that country. There were a few others like us, three German people and some Spanish guys that were just looking at each other now and then thinking just shut up! They were giving me some serious cabin fever being on here with them. And that wasn’t just me and Ellie that was like I said a few people! But, smile and wave beth! Smile. And. Wave.