After a bit of a sleep in, we packed our bags and started
getting the boat ready for our departure back to Australia. Bob dropped by and
asked if we would like to go snorkelling with him at Gili Layar this afternoon,
so we got stuck into getting the boat cleaned and packed up.
After lunch we all piled into Bob’s large tender and headed
the couple of miles over to Gili Layar. While Bob was playing around adjusting
his buoyancy, Putu went ashore to the lovely beach while I snorkelled along the
drop-off.
I swam and drifted in the current covering well over a kilometre.
Visibility was reasonable and the coral was better than yesterday at Gili
Goleng. There were lots of small fish but very few large fish, although I did
see a few schools of large trevally.
The temperature at the surface was very warm although there
was the occasional cool patch, but when you dived down a couple of meters, the
water was much cooler.
After a couple of hours in the water, I headed back to Bob’s
tender where we had a couple of beers before deciding to go and have a bite to
eat at the Layer Beach Bungalows just up the beach.
We ordered a lite meal and a few beers in the big open
bamboo restaurant and chatted for a while before heading back to Gili Gede.
Tomorrow we were leaving Gili Gede and going back to Bali.
Bob was also going back to Bali and he offered to pick us up in his tender at 11:00
and have his deckie take us all around to Kokomo to catch the ferry.
Back on Sirocco we spent the rest of the evening getting
everything organised and ready to leave tomorrow.
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