Dinner Onboard KLM Java

We're sailing across Flores Island and diving 2 or 3 times per day.

Komodo Island, Home of the Dragons

My dive boat made a short stop for a walk with rangers on Pulau Komodo.  Pretty cool creatures. Generally eat deer and pigs, not humans.

On board SV JAYA a vessel in the Wicked Diving fleet.

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Dana
Dana M. Fowlkes

Gone Diving

I have joined a 20 day dive live-aboard in Komodo, ID going to Raja Ampat. The vessel is relocating for the season. She is the KLM Java and operated by Wicked Diving who we worked with in Thailand.  Jaya is separating from Wicked Diving after this trip.

Susan is in Vancouver and will also go to San Diego and Boston visiting her sisters.

Sail Indonesia etc Rally in Lovina

It has been fun watching the cruising yachts coming and leaving Lovina the past several weeks.  The numbers are thinning out now as the dry season is beginning to wane and visas begin to run out.  We have had rain twice this week for the first time in over 2 months.

We literally have a bird's eye view of the Lovina harbour.

Dusk approached

Morning and the tidal current has changed

New Family: Chip Lord

We now have a new family member:  Chip Lord.  Chip was born about 3 weeks ago in a cave under our house.  He has one brother and one sister who will be going to other homes.  The mother is traditional Balinese and roams the streets for her meals.

Chip Lord 3 weeks old

Living in Bali has its rewards

This week we had a special invitation to the home of a Balinese friend who had two things to celebrate.  There is also a ceremony to celebrate everything in Bali, but these were special.  Firstly, Nyoman had finished construction on a new home and it HAD to be blessed.  Secondly, after ten years, Nyoman was being ordained as a top level Hindu priest.  The ceremonies lasted over a period of three days, but since he is a true friend, we were specifically invited to a buffer dinner.  There was still gamelan music and Balinese singing, but no religious ceremonies.  Those had been completed earlier in the day.

Susan, Nyoman and Dana

We've moved into our new home: Villa Cengkeh, Bali

One week ago today we moved into our new newly constructed home on the north side of Bali.

Overview from living room toward the north Bali sea

Sunset over Java