Position in Loboleba Harbour: South 08*22'068 East 123*24'394
We had a great sail yesterday and entered the Selat Lamakera pass at 9:30am with breathtaking views of the high Volcanic islands. Our timing was a bit off as we were supposed to catch the tide in our favour but ended up arriving on the turn so had about three knots against us for a while which was okay as it can reach up to seven. Loboleba is an enclosed natural harbour overlooked buy the active 'Ile Ape' volcano and the small city of Lewoleba. We anchored in about 40ft of water along with 15 other yachts and headed ashore to the newly constructed dinghy dock (Made out of bamboo and planks of wood) to explore town. The people here are very poor but everyone is always happy with big smiles on their faces and calls of 'Hello Misses' and 'Hello Mister' everywhere we go. There was just enough time to take a quick walk through town to take and then stop off at a restaurant for a couple of Bintang Beers and fried rice and Noodle dinner. All would have been great except another cruiser came up to tell us that Blue Moon was getting a little too friendly with another boat in the anchorage!! Jimmy and Joern sped out to move us away and luckily only minor damage occurred to the other boat and none to us.
Today we walked to the traditional market about 45 mins from town through the winding back lanes with a constant stream of motorbikes beeping their horns and waving at us. We tried our hand at haggling for fresh fruit and vegetables but I'm pretty sure we're still paying four times as much as the locals...we need a little more practice with our numbers as negotiating with a calculator seems a bit strange. In the afternoon we stopped off for another meal of fried noodles (roughly around $1.50)and then back to the boat to organize fuel and water - which are both available from the guys at the dinghy dock.
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Tell Jim he better call. Bill
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