After the trek - and the last week as surf dudes

 

 

 

We spent two nights in Senggigi chilling and sorting out our various wounds and ailments from the trek.  See Amie and Alex above battling it out at chess!

 

 

We then caught a local cab to the port Telek Kode (see above ?!).  The driver stopped down a p from sandy track which ended in the beach...'this doesn't look  right mummy' piped up Amie from the back.  Yes, I think you right I replied as I peered down the track to see if we could see anything.  round the corner was indeed a shack labelled 'blue water express boat' with a German couple sitting patiently.  Hummm...!  So unloaded and joined the queue.  Below is Amie at the port shop!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The boat trip back to Bali was a bit of a trial.  The children desperately wanted to sit 'up top' on the roof with tall the cool folk.  I eventually said yes - when we could see Bali.  What I didn't clock was that two minutes before we climbed the ladder to the roof the crew came down. Within five minutes of joining other travellers up there we were being slammed by massive waves ....! We were soaking within seconds and freezing cold.  I managed to man handle both kids down the ladder and into the cabin where we spent the rest of the trip soaking wet and trying desperately not to be sick!

 

 

I had arranged a ride for when we docked but when we arrived we were an hour late and no - one was there to meet us.  Ho Hum...we eventually found the chap (another Wayan) at the blue water express 'office'.  So we were off, on the way to the south coast.  Above is a salt plant where they manufacture salt from sea water, which we saw on the way.  We had booked a place on the sea but it turned out to be absolutely in the middle of no where so I changed and we spent our last week near Kuta and in Jimbaran. It was great.

 

 

 

There was a bunch of sea food shacks at the end of our road. Above is Amie and Alex choosing seafood for dinner - Alex was fascinated by the lobsters all fighting in the tanks! Below is the tables at the rear of the seafood shacks, where we ate each night.

 

Above and below - Amie and Alex learning to surf - they really got the hang of it. Alex was catching rides and whizzing in on his knees with hands waving high in the air!