Christmas Day – Monday 25th December
Alarm goes off at 6.30 am !! But i was up already just before the alarm went off. We had already prepared our stuff the night before so after a quick shower, we were dressed and packed for our day of island hopping – but it was raining heavily!!! Why is the weather god punishing us?????
Quick breakfast and we climbed our way back to the reception area to wait for our pick up which arrived exactly at 7.30.
Something very interesting – all the staff and now our pick up driver were wishing us all a merry Christmas! There is no Christmas spirit here although at the resort they do have some Christmas trees in the lobby and restaurant and have been playing Christmas carols but that does not make Christmas…….. Today it’s just another day on the island of Bali and we were going down to Sanur where we would be transferred on a high speed boat to Lembongan for the day.
The drive down to Sanur in the rain took some 45 minutes as the traffic was not too bad so we arrived quite early for the transfer. There was quite a lot of activity on the beach – people gathering with suitcases, backpacks and other types of luggages. We were still not completely wide awake so we just sat there and took it all in!! Actually we were somewhat dismayed that not was raining so hard – it wasn’t going to be much fun on Lembongan……
Finally our high speed boat was ready so we were called to embark – well wading into the sea and being helped onto the little platform between the high powered outboard engines and we all found a seat indoors. The bouncy trip across took some 35 minutes in choppy waters and when we arrived it was again wading through the water to reach the beach and it was still raining!!! Everything looked so dismal!!
We hung around till about lunchtime and afterwards went on a trip on glass bottom boat to the coral reef. Gerry went snorkelling while I was the one taking the pictures. By the time we got back to the beach, the rain had stopped and a miracle took place – the sun came out!!! Finally we could relax on the beach till it was time for us to return to Sanur. Again the scrambling game of getting on board the high speed boat but this time it wasn’t too bad as the sun was shining – that makes a whole lot of difference!
Back at Sanur, we were again picked up and driven back to Ubud – we were quite exhausted and after showering and getting rid of the sand, we checked ourselves in for our flight to Christchurch tomorrow evening – yes our week in Bali is over – we’re off on our next leg of our trip: New Zealand !
