The Island Groove

Most of the day we spent figuring out how we’d get back to Bali on Friday since we didn’t have return tickets. It gets complicated on these little islands, and who are you supposed to believe? Once that was settled, sometime after lunch, we headed out for another snorkel. We’d been studying the beach in front of our lunch spot and figured out how to get out to the reef. Lots of beautiful fish. We also signed up for a snorkel trip. So the next day off we went to catch the 1000 boat.

It was great because the boat took us out to the reef just off shore where we drifted with the current. We made four stops around our island: Turtles, a Coral Wall, a Shipwreck, and Blue Coral. Back for cold showers and a three Bintang lunch at our favorite spot – YaYa’s, for their Fried Noodle Special and fresh squid.

One of our fondest memories of Bali and Gili Meno in particular is how happy the people seemed to be. At YaYa’s when the young guys who waited on us were not busy they were singing and playing the guitar. Even at our WeBe Cottages, the same thing. We’d come home to young guys singing and playing guitar. It was like acoustic guitar playing and great ol’ American songs, lots of John Denver and stuff like that, with their own island twist to it. One of them would play percussion on whatever was handy or available.

Here’s the cat at YaYa’s. He had the lazy afternoon groove down pat.

After our long, lazy lunch break we spent the rest of the afternoon and all the next day exploring. We saw the remains of several “resorts” from the past like this one.