Before leaving Trawangen we did two dives. We went to Manta Point and Shark Point where we saw our first shark, a baby white tipped reef shark - amazing. The diving was excellent despite some very strong currents and we both feel we are improving technically at diving. We have also dived from Gili Air, heading to Simon’s reef in the early morning. It is probably one of our favourite sites as the visibility is amazing - at least 50 metres and the diversity of the aquatic life was stunning.
After Trawangan we spent three nights on the smallest and quietest of the islands, Gili Meno. We spent our days exploring the island, snorkelling, swimming and sunbathing, after deciding that we needed to take it even easier before we go to Australia to find jobs!
Today is our third day on Gili Air, which is somewhere between the party island Trawangen and semi-deserted Meno. Again we continued our renewed attempts at taking it easy, snorkelling (which is phenomenal on all three islands) and generally sunning ourselves and honing our frisby skills on the white sand beaches.
Tomorrow we head to our final destination, Sengiggi which is on the west coast of Lombok. On 22rd March we begin our journey to Australia, flying to Brisbane via Darwin. When we arrive we’ve arranged to couch surf staying with an Australian guy who lives in the suburbs outside the city. We’ve met lots of travellers who’ve raved about couch surfing which is basically consists of a website where you can contact people around the world who are offering a couch to sleep on and arrange to stay with them. It’ll be a nice way to meet some locals on our arrival and do some cooking rather than eating out every meal, which sounds great but we’re really missing non-fried vegetables which are something very rare in S.E.Asia!
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