Southern Hemisphere

We crossed the equator into Indonesia and to the island of Bali. It’s the rainy season here so between Coronavirus and the off season it’s not too crowded here. The tourists here are mostly Australian, for them it’s a fairly short flight (4or 5 hours) and an inexpensive vacation.

It’s rained everyday, mostly at night but sometimes during the day. It clears up and is nice between rains. It’s a hot and humid rainforest with dense foliage everywhere!

We are on the west coast so have beautiful sunsets in the evening. The waves are good for low action surfing. Because of the type of traveling we are doing maybe haven’t done many excursions or anything touristy that costs extra money but yesterday we booked a fishing and snorkeling day to the east coast of Bali for a cost us $45 each. In included a private car from west to east coast, fishing, snorkeling and the fish we caught cooked for lunch.

Our driver Arya, was an excellent tour guide. He is from north Bali his family lives in the north he comes to the south for work. He’s very knowledgeable about the entire island. We learned a lot from him about Hindi beliefs and rituals.

Our boat was a deep haul canoe with outriggers. This type of boat seems to have several names are driver just called it a boat. With the outriggers it was stable enough for us to stand in well we fished and super challenging to get back into after snorkeling! The fishing was fun, we cut trigger fish and red snapper. I also watched the guides spearfish, they could drive about 30 feet deep, sit on the bottom and watch for fish to pass in front of them. Amazing and ear popping!