Shootin Through

We are on the move, slowly but surely. All suffering from a bit of a cold but the journey must continue. We have arrived at this lovely little anchorage, which has the most boats I have seen in one spot since arriving at Indonesia. There are hot springs, resorts, snorkeling and a bunch of others things to do here. So we will probably hang for a day or so and plan the next, possibly long journey ahead.

Back to Lovina after another rolly night. Slowly making our way to Malaysia. It is the day of Silence here on Bali Island, so nobody is allowed outside, no lights, no noise, no shops, just a day of quiet reflection.

Ok so it is official, we are checked out of Indo in the nick of time. The official fortnight religious holiday has begun. We have made our way over to Bali Island and dropped anchor at Ahmed for the night and tomorrow we will set off again. No wind but better than it against us. Basically this will become our routine for the next week and a bit as we make our way to Malaysia. Managed to get a workout in, lots of activities with Hudson and now we can relax, and rest and get ready for tomorrow.

It’s time to check ourselves out of Indonesia and head for Malaysia. After a few days saying goodbye to our amazing friends, I am a little sad. I know this lifestyle is transient and people come and go, but it never gets any easier. We endured some crazy storms and in turn have lost all our wind instruments, so we will endeavour to fix them in 24 hours otherwise we are going to be doing the longest passage we have ever done without any way of knowing what the wind is truly doing. Not ideal, but that’s sailing life.

Back to Marina Del Ray to hide from the wind, complete a Uni Exam and then head to our clearance Port.

Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards 🤷🏽‍♀️⛵️

So a change of plans. We are heading back to Lombok to hide from the weather that is incoming and also get cleared out of Indonesia. There is a religious holiday for 2 weeks and that just so happens to be when our Visa’s expire. The joys of sailing, plans are never concrete. Thankfully we have plenty of options.

We set off on our crazy journey to Malaysia to avoid having to do a Visa Run. Fingers crossed it all goes well as the timing is leaving us with zero margin for error.

After a week and a bit of relaxing, swimming in pools and the beach, eating way too much cheap and delicious food, we made the executive decision to do a mad dash to Malaysia instead of doing a Visa run. Wish us luck, hahaha.

After a lovely week at the Marina enjoying lots of pool time and land time and too many delicious meals we have decided to head around the corner to a cute little island anchorage in the hopes of enjoying some beach time and relaxing.