Ring of Fire

SUMBAWA – LOMBOK – GILI ISLANDS – BALI It’s pretty cool to be able to park your boat next to a volcano… “Precariously located above the grinding and mashing of tectonic plates, and ringed by a chain of fire-breathing volcanoes,”* Indonesia is located along part of the “ring of fire”, one of the most volatile…

Komodo Megafauna!

Komodo National Park has been a long-time check box on my bucket list for two main reasons: dragons and diving! The opportunity to hang out with the legendary giant lizards, the Komodo dragons, and the opportunity to dive on pristine reefs, possibly with manta-rays… …and it lived up to expectations! We got up close and…

Diving, snorkelling (and motoring) our way along Flores

We have spent the past 18 days transiting across the north coast of Flores, and without much wind, we’ve had to motor most of the time. In addition to the on-shore adventures we’ve been having like the village visits in Pulau Besar and the trip to Kelimutu volcano, one of the biggest highlights of Flores…

Stop! Thief!

We had been warned. But despite the warning, we still fell foul of Flores’ number one crime gang: the macaques (monkeys) of Kelimutu! The day started ordinarily enough. We woke early and met our driver in the pre-dawn dark out the front of a little resort in the beachside village of Geliting near Maumere on…