Lombok to Gili Air
Gaviota
Wed 7 Sep 2016 09:40
008:21.93S 116:05.02E
We ended
up spending 4 nights at Gili Air, although the anchorage was rolly with high
speed tripper boats speeding in and disgorging hundreds of tourists every day
the island had a charm to it. We walked
the 5kms around the island and discovered loads of little quirky bars,
restaurants and small resorts, sunset saw everybody lounging on bean bags or
swinging in hammocks drinking sundowners and watching the sun slip into the
sea. We met up with a Brit couple who
had left UK the same time as Syd, they also shared a mutual friend so we spent
a couple of really good evenings talking, downing Bintangs and sampling the
food in a few of the many restaurants.
Ruby’s Cafe served the best pumpkin curry I have ever tasted.
As always
something had to burst the euphoric bubble and once again it was the generator
which decided on day 4 to stop working – again!!!! With no freezer running we had no option but
to beg a berth at Bali Marina in Benoa on the South of Bali and hotfoot(sail)
over there. The wind was blowing so sails
went up and we had a lovely fast sail over to the island of Lembongan about 15
miles away from Bali.
The
journey took us through the Lombok Strait which marks the biogeographical
division between the Australian continental shelf and the Asian continental
shelf, more famously known as the “Wallace Line” after Alfred Russel Wallace
who discovered that the plants and animals on the west side of the Strait i.e.
Bali had Asian origins whilst the East side i.e. Lombok are more closely
related to Australian species.
