Menjangan Island. A fantasy island inhabited only by a small herd of deer. It has white sandy beaches, pristine coral gardens and beautiful clear blue water. On a recent outing I assemble the guests and we leave the sheltered bay and it's full steam ahead for a lovely day out. Five minutes in and the skies turn black and the rain starts - "just a shower" I say as the captain peers down at me with a face like the thundery skies and points to the 3 metre white horses ahead. Do we push on in the face of adversity? do we heck. "Ready about?, Aye aye Cap'n". The silver lining is that I've forgotten to wear any swimming trunks which I'm sure, although my intrepid guests can handle most situations, wouldn't go down too well.
One of the things I thought I'd miss from England was the early morning birdsong, not so. Ulric has posted us a couple of bird ID books so all the
LBJs now have names. We have Prineas, Munias, Fan-tails, Kingfishers and loads more. One of the boys was pointing to a tree in the garden last week and making the sign for a Manta ray, I thought he was mad but looked and there was an eagle (too dumbstruck to make positive ID).
Speaking of wildlife, we have
rats mice, OK we have rats - not nasty black ones but nice brown ones. Oh, who am I kidding, we have rats! The little sods have nothing better to do than chew through the internet cable and wee on anything electrical. Amanda has discovered they like papaya sandwiches and shall henceforth be known as the Rat-catcher of Pemuteran.
Finally, I couldn't help but show you this picture of a first time diver. He seems pretty comfortable underwater wouldn't you say? [Dear PADI this was dive 2 of a 2 dive intro. I never take the camera on dive 1 so please don't take my license away]
