We arrived on the outskirts of Bali about 6 this morning, it’s warm & sticky! Headed up to breakfast about 6.30 and it was busy already. Other mornings just after 7 it’s been quite quiet. Everyone wanting to get off the boat. The early birds get to take the tenders before the tour excursions take them over, then anyone else gets them afterwards. Got to the meeting room at 8 and left about 20 past. Waited around on the stairway for the tender to get organised then sat in that for a little while. Got to the shore about 9 and then on to our bus. We must have climbed 1001 steps, maybe a slight exaggeration make it 999, lol. We first visited the Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park with great bronze animals on the drive in and enormous statues of Garuda and Wisnu in the centre. Then back through the one and only traffic light and across to Uluwatu to visit the cliff top temple. Then once again through the same traffic light to a tourist shop for a little shopping. The traffic on the roads is amaszing, narrow roads, lots of bikes, and yet it all seems to flow, especially merging into a roundabout, lol. Overtaking, turning, merging anywhere all just seems to get done with minimal haste and lots of patience. We got back into the tender about 2, footsore and weary, but it had been a verhy nice day. As there was a swell it took a while for everyone to get off/on the 2 tenders ahead of us, so lunch was at 3.15. I took Mum back some as she was resting! We will have a long day tomorrow, a 9 hour tour, but have been told that 6 of those will be in the bus!  PS we think the plane was a house, it was in the middle of suburbia!

Once more a full day at sea, and a little more munzee spreadsheet fixed up. You never know, by the time I get home I might be almost up to date, lol.
The sea has become a little more uneven today, there is a swell out there and a few waves breaking so one can see more white out there than yesterday. The rocking motion of the ship is more noticeable especially when walking the corridor. I did actually try taking some photos of the moon last night as it was big and orange coming over the horizon, but it was obviously an optical illusion as both cameras took a small white object, LOL.
Nothing startling to disturb our usual day of doing nothing much. It was formal dining night so we did dress up for dinner and I’ve packed up the bag for the first of our shore tours. So tomorrows blog will hopefully be more interesting than the the last few days.

A full day at sea and I’ve actually managed to update 2 pages of my munzee spreadsheet! Had a walk around the deck after breakfast with a stop off at the mini golf course for Mum to play the 9 holes. I didn’t keep track of how many she did it in for tomorrow morning, but I’ll have to start. LOL. We couldn’t sit out on our balcony this morning as it was way to hot, but it was lovely after lunch. Saw several ore carriers on their way down to Port Hedland, but that was the sum total of sightings of anything except water, not even any clouds. The sea was really flat today, not a white wave crest to be seen except those made by the ship. We are only sitting on 12 knots as we can’t get to Bali too early and still have another full day at sea tomorrow. Have had mostly the same companions at dinner each night, so the talk has been interesting and varied. There have been several art auctions already, and some selling for lots of money. I was telling Mum that I’d overheard someone saying there was one that went for $12000 yesterday, to be told by the other lift occupant, that she was an art dealer and there wasn’t anything worth over $9000 on board the ship. But they seem to have a never ending supply.