Sunday 21 June 2009

You can kill 2 birds with one stone!

The next few day on the Gilis were pretty relaxing. We slept in, had breakfast and lay in the hamock. Im reading Geore Orwells burmese days at the moment and although im not in burma i still think its apt considering im in south east Asia.
After breakfast etc as usuall i walked out of the hotel onto the beach. It literally is paradise I half expect to see Peter Andre singing mysterious girl in the water. Thjs evening we watched Slumdog millionaire in the open air cinema then watched the lions match. I really thought we had it in the last 5 mins.
Today I woke up later than the rest of the guys so met them at the beach. We were sitting outside one of the really posh resorts (ie 40 dollars a night not 6) . Ciara was on the beach while James and Jarod were snorkelling. Unbeknown to me at first the had a spear gun. Afer a while they both stood up in the water and with someting slithering the began to walk towards shore. Whatever it was was pretty big and when James stepped out of the water i immediatley recognised that the beak of the fish belonged to the parrot fish. This is not a good fish to eat! The spear was right through the head and the poor thing was slithering around. James wanted to gut it in front of the horrified tourists but we convinced him to take it to the man who gave him the gun. However knowing it was uneadible and affeered of the grief the locals would give them James released the beast back into the water. It seemed to have some fight in it but im sure it was quickly picked up by the reef sharks. Ciara and I both felt upset at the waste and as a consequence there was a bad air in camp that morning.
After lunch and as we still had the gun we rented a boat to take us hunting. This is when the miracle happened. Chuck Norris would be proud. Yes ladies and gentlemen i got 2 fish with one shot! Who ever thought it could happen. Not me! Not monsters just little black reef fish the locals would eat but I was still chuffed t0 get them. We got 5 in total and just swimming with the fish and turtles was satisfactory enough.
Last night we had food in a more local eatery.It wasnt great but we spent some time with the locals and planned our trip back to Lombok. The next morning we packed and left early arriving in Sengigi at midday. Now its time to try organise some porters to take us up the volcanoe. Its currently active so we need to be carefull but it should be fun. Apparently there is a surf break nearby so we will probably have a surf before tea!

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