Day 7 – October 3 – tenders at sea

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!

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