Discovering The Charm Of Gili Air before we sail off-grid. Episode 258

Our Last Day at Gili Air

Gili Air is just a pretty small little Island right off the coast of Lombok. There’s three islands there, Gili A, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan – Gili means island and Air means water. Although it is close to the mainland, everything has to be brought over in these little wooden boats. And with 2 or 3 thousand tourists arriving and leaving per day from this island, there’s a lot of food and alcohol and general goods like gravel and cement, iron reinforcing iron, what roofing tiles? Everything you imagine has to be bought over. There isn’t a barge that a drive on-drive off on the island itself. There is no motorized transport, so there’s only horses and carts, bicycles, and in the last few years some electric scooters have been allowed but basically everything gets loaded off the boats onto a horse and cart and distributed around the island. It’s pretty crazy, but it’s really really cool not to have any traffic. The little Lombok ponies have bells and decorations all over them and the owners take quite good care of them, sometimes giving them little haircuts and things like that to make them stand out from the others. And the island is just full of these little bells and clip-clop of horses cruising around. It’s very very cool!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!

Our Experience at Gili Air

Marie, Mountian girl from France, has the most honest and open heart of anybody I know. This is our beautiful 5-month-old baby boy Eli who has spent now half his life on the sailing boat. I’m Ver, half Kiwi, half Swiss, grew up on the beach, lived most of my life in the mountains, done a lot of dumb stuff and I’m still here to talk about it. Together we live on our Crow windspeed 39, she’s a good safe ship, gets us along fast and gives us plenty of space to move. This year we’re sailing around Southeast Indonesia, plan on meeting as many different people seeing as many different cultures and experiencing as many different things as we can, and showing Eli all of this. Each one of us in life only gets a certain amount of sunrise and sunsets, and we want to remember as many of them as we can. We’re going to bring you along for the ride. We couldn’t do this without some great sponsors on our side – Rockna, Highfield, Subtech, Volcom Indonesia, and most importantly, most importantly our best sponsors of all are our patrons. Thank you all very much!

Our Last Day at Gili Air

Gili Air is just a pretty small little Island right off the coast of Lombok. There’s three islands there, Gili A, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan – Gili means island and Air means water. Although it is close to the mainland, everything has to be brought over in these little wooden boats. And with 2 or 3 thousand tourists arriving and leaving per day from this island, there’s a lot of food and alcohol and general goods like gravel and cement, iron reinforcing iron, what roofing tiles? Everything you imagine has to be bought over. There isn’t a barge that a drive on-drive off on the island itself. There is no motorized transport, so there’s only horses and carts, bicycles, and in the last few years some electric scooters have been allowed but basically everything gets loaded off the boats onto a horse and cart and distributed around the island. It’s pretty crazy, but it’s really really cool not to have any traffic. The little Lombok ponies have bells and decorations all over them and the owners take quite good care of them, sometimes giving them little haircuts and things like that to make them stand out from the others. And the island is just full of these little bells and clip-clop of horses cruising around. It’s very very cool!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!

Our Experience at Gili Air

Marie, Mountian girl from France, has the most honest and open heart of anybody I know. This is our beautiful 5-month-old baby boy Eli who has spent now half his life on the sailing boat. I’m Ver, half Kiwi, half Swiss, grew up on the beach, lived most of my life in the mountains, done a lot of dumb stuff and I’m still here to talk about it. Together we live on our Crow windspeed 39, she’s a good safe ship, gets us along fast and gives us plenty of space to move. This year we’re sailing around Southeast Indonesia, plan on meeting as many different people seeing as many different cultures and experiencing as many different things as we can, and showing Eli all of this. Each one of us in life only gets a certain amount of sunrise and sunsets, and we want to remember as many of them as we can. We’re going to bring you along for the ride. We couldn’t do this without some great sponsors on our side – Rockna, Highfield, Subtech, Volcom Indonesia, and most importantly, most importantly our best sponsors of all are our patrons. Thank you all very much!

Our Last Day at Gili Air

Gili Air is just a pretty small little Island right off the coast of Lombok. There’s three islands there, Gili A, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan – Gili means island and Air means water. Although it is close to the mainland, everything has to be brought over in these little wooden boats. And with 2 or 3 thousand tourists arriving and leaving per day from this island, there’s a lot of food and alcohol and general goods like gravel and cement, iron reinforcing iron, what roofing tiles? Everything you imagine has to be bought over. There isn’t a barge that a drive on-drive off on the island itself. There is no motorized transport, so there’s only horses and carts, bicycles, and in the last few years some electric scooters have been allowed but basically everything gets loaded off the boats onto a horse and cart and distributed around the island. It’s pretty crazy, but it’s really really cool not to have any traffic. The little Lombok ponies have bells and decorations all over them and the owners take quite good care of them, sometimes giving them little haircuts and things like that to make them stand out from the others. And the island is just full of these little bells and clip-clop of horses cruising around. It’s very very cool!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!

Our Last Day at Gili Air

Gili Air is just a pretty small little Island right off the coast of Lombok. There’s three islands there, Gili A, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan – Gili means island and Air means water. Although it is close to the mainland, everything has to be brought over in these little wooden boats. And with 2 or 3 thousand tourists arriving and leaving per day from this island, there’s a lot of food and alcohol and general goods like gravel and cement, iron reinforcing iron, what roofing tiles? Everything you imagine has to be bought over. There isn’t a barge that a drive on-drive off on the island itself. There is no motorized transport, so there’s only horses and carts, bicycles, and in the last few years some electric scooters have been allowed but basically everything gets loaded off the boats onto a horse and cart and distributed around the island. It’s pretty crazy, but it’s really really cool not to have any traffic. The little Lombok ponies have bells and decorations all over them and the owners take quite good care of them, sometimes giving them little haircuts and things like that to make them stand out from the others. And the island is just full of these little bells and clip-clop of horses cruising around. It’s very very cool!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!

Our Experience at Gili Air

Marie, Mountian girl from France, has the most honest and open heart of anybody I know. This is our beautiful 5-month-old baby boy Eli who has spent now half his life on the sailing boat. I’m Ver, half Kiwi, half Swiss, grew up on the beach, lived most of my life in the mountains, done a lot of dumb stuff and I’m still here to talk about it. Together we live on our Crow windspeed 39, she’s a good safe ship, gets us along fast and gives us plenty of space to move. This year we’re sailing around Southeast Indonesia, plan on meeting as many different people seeing as many different cultures and experiencing as many different things as we can, and showing Eli all of this. Each one of us in life only gets a certain amount of sunrise and sunsets, and we want to remember as many of them as we can. We’re going to bring you along for the ride. We couldn’t do this without some great sponsors on our side – Rockna, Highfield, Subtech, Volcom Indonesia, and most importantly, most importantly our best sponsors of all are our patrons. Thank you all very much!

Our Last Day at Gili Air

Gili Air is just a pretty small little Island right off the coast of Lombok. There’s three islands there, Gili A, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan – Gili means island and Air means water. Although it is close to the mainland, everything has to be brought over in these little wooden boats. And with 2 or 3 thousand tourists arriving and leaving per day from this island, there’s a lot of food and alcohol and general goods like gravel and cement, iron reinforcing iron, what roofing tiles? Everything you imagine has to be bought over. There isn’t a barge that a drive on-drive off on the island itself. There is no motorized transport, so there’s only horses and carts, bicycles, and in the last few years some electric scooters have been allowed but basically everything gets loaded off the boats onto a horse and cart and distributed around the island. It’s pretty crazy, but it’s really really cool not to have any traffic. The little Lombok ponies have bells and decorations all over them and the owners take quite good care of them, sometimes giving them little haircuts and things like that to make them stand out from the others. And the island is just full of these little bells and clip-clop of horses cruising around. It’s very very cool!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!

Sailing to Gili Air: Island Life Before Going Off-Grid

After a couple of weeks that we’d honestly rather forget with running aground and having to haul out and fix it, we’ve actually enjoyed the last few days here at Gili Air. Just been kicking back, enjoying the fact that we’re floating and enjoying life in general. It was really nice to be here, to swim and walk a little bit. And yeah just trying to relax after all the stressful moments. Now it’s our last day here, uh, and we’re going to finally head off to sailing which is the goal. So today we are going to enjoy this last day here and probably the last Western pleasures because I think like we don’t really know sailing but we’re gonna find less touristy places and probably way less like western food and shopping places and all of this. So today it’s going to be a bit like enjoying all the things that we are not going to have for, well, probably a year. Well, we love going remote, you know. Like these Western things we grew up with, it’s all nice and stuff but actually we love being remote and I can’t wait. But we’ll show you a few of the things that we are going to miss and then later on in the video our first passage leaving here, going around the whole top of Lombok, and we’ll show you all that later on anyway. So enjoy the video!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!

Our Last Day at Gili Air

Gili Air is just a pretty small little Island right off the coast of Lombok. There’s three islands there, Gili A, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan – Gili means island and Air means water. Although it is close to the mainland, everything has to be brought over in these little wooden boats. And with 2 or 3 thousand tourists arriving and leaving per day from this island, there’s a lot of food and alcohol and general goods like gravel and cement, iron reinforcing iron, what roofing tiles? Everything you imagine has to be bought over. There isn’t a barge that a drive on-drive off on the island itself. There is no motorized transport, so there’s only horses and carts, bicycles, and in the last few years some electric scooters have been allowed but basically everything gets loaded off the boats onto a horse and cart and distributed around the island. It’s pretty crazy, but it’s really really cool not to have any traffic. The little Lombok ponies have bells and decorations all over them and the owners take quite good care of them, sometimes giving them little haircuts and things like that to make them stand out from the others. And the island is just full of these little bells and clip-clop of horses cruising around. It’s very very cool!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!

Our Experience at Gili Air

Marie, Mountian girl from France, has the most honest and open heart of anybody I know. This is our beautiful 5-month-old baby boy Eli who has spent now half his life on the sailing boat. I’m Ver, half Kiwi, half Swiss, grew up on the beach, lived most of my life in the mountains, done a lot of dumb stuff and I’m still here to talk about it. Together we live on our Crow windspeed 39, she’s a good safe ship, gets us along fast and gives us plenty of space to move. This year we’re sailing around Southeast Indonesia, plan on meeting as many different people seeing as many different cultures and experiencing as many different things as we can, and showing Eli all of this. Each one of us in life only gets a certain amount of sunrise and sunsets, and we want to remember as many of them as we can. We’re going to bring you along for the ride. We couldn’t do this without some great sponsors on our side – Rockna, Highfield, Subtech, Volcom Indonesia, and most importantly, most importantly our best sponsors of all are our patrons. Thank you all very much!

Our Last Day at Gili Air

Gili Air is just a pretty small little Island right off the coast of Lombok. There’s three islands there, Gili A, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan – Gili means island and Air means water. Although it is close to the mainland, everything has to be brought over in these little wooden boats. And with 2 or 3 thousand tourists arriving and leaving per day from this island, there’s a lot of food and alcohol and general goods like gravel and cement, iron reinforcing iron, what roofing tiles? Everything you imagine has to be bought over. There isn’t a barge that a drive on-drive off on the island itself. There is no motorized transport, so there’s only horses and carts, bicycles, and in the last few years some electric scooters have been allowed but basically everything gets loaded off the boats onto a horse and cart and distributed around the island. It’s pretty crazy, but it’s really really cool not to have any traffic. The little Lombok ponies have bells and decorations all over them and the owners take quite good care of them, sometimes giving them little haircuts and things like that to make them stand out from the others. And the island is just full of these little bells and clip-clop of horses cruising around. It’s very very cool!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!

Our Last Day at Gili Air

Gili Air is just a pretty small little Island right off the coast of Lombok. There’s three islands there, Gili A, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan – Gili means island and Air means water. Although it is close to the mainland, everything has to be brought over in these little wooden boats. And with 2 or 3 thousand tourists arriving and leaving per day from this island, there’s a lot of food and alcohol and general goods like gravel and cement, iron reinforcing iron, what roofing tiles? Everything you imagine has to be bought over. There isn’t a barge that a drive on-drive off on the island itself. There is no motorized transport, so there’s only horses and carts, bicycles, and in the last few years some electric scooters have been allowed but basically everything gets loaded off the boats onto a horse and cart and distributed around the island. It’s pretty crazy, but it’s really really cool not to have any traffic. The little Lombok ponies have bells and decorations all over them and the owners take quite good care of them, sometimes giving them little haircuts and things like that to make them stand out from the others. And the island is just full of these little bells and clip-clop of horses cruising around. It’s very very cool!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!

Our Experience at Gili Air

Marie, Mountian girl from France, has the most honest and open heart of anybody I know. This is our beautiful 5-month-old baby boy Eli who has spent now half his life on the sailing boat. I’m Ver, half Kiwi, half Swiss, grew up on the beach, lived most of my life in the mountains, done a lot of dumb stuff and I’m still here to talk about it. Together we live on our Crow windspeed 39, she’s a good safe ship, gets us along fast and gives us plenty of space to move. This year we’re sailing around Southeast Indonesia, plan on meeting as many different people seeing as many different cultures and experiencing as many different things as we can, and showing Eli all of this. Each one of us in life only gets a certain amount of sunrise and sunsets, and we want to remember as many of them as we can. We’re going to bring you along for the ride. We couldn’t do this without some great sponsors on our side – Rockna, Highfield, Subtech, Volcom Indonesia, and most importantly, most importantly our best sponsors of all are our patrons. Thank you all very much!

Our Last Day at Gili Air

Gili Air is just a pretty small little Island right off the coast of Lombok. There’s three islands there, Gili A, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan – Gili means island and Air means water. Although it is close to the mainland, everything has to be brought over in these little wooden boats. And with 2 or 3 thousand tourists arriving and leaving per day from this island, there’s a lot of food and alcohol and general goods like gravel and cement, iron reinforcing iron, what roofing tiles? Everything you imagine has to be bought over. There isn’t a barge that a drive on-drive off on the island itself. There is no motorized transport, so there’s only horses and carts, bicycles, and in the last few years some electric scooters have been allowed but basically everything gets loaded off the boats onto a horse and cart and distributed around the island. It’s pretty crazy, but it’s really really cool not to have any traffic. The little Lombok ponies have bells and decorations all over them and the owners take quite good care of them, sometimes giving them little haircuts and things like that to make them stand out from the others. And the island is just full of these little bells and clip-clop of horses cruising around. It’s very very cool!

Experiencing Gili Air

What I also find pretty cool on a tourist Island like this there are still locals that do traditional things like net fixing and fishing, and uh woodworking and all that sort of stuff. That’s really nice too! First of all, we took some cash out when we’ll be far away from cities and touristic areas – it will only be possible to pay by cash. The island is Muslim but tolerates pretty well the Westerners outfit, so you can find a lot of boutiques with a nice selection of dresses and beach wear. Even though I would love to add some dresses to my collection, I know that most of these clothes would not really be wearable where we will go – they would not be practical or just not covering me enough. And it would be unrespectful for the locals,

Coffee Culture

Coffee can be found absolutely everywhere in Indonesia, but the proper flat white with carrot cake is rare. As it was really hot that day, we decided to go to a bar with a swimming pool to enjoy a cold beverage. Eli’s first swim in fresh water and I think he loved it! Who wouldn’t love an old old swimming pool with a view on turquoise ocean and green mountains? Eli is really starting to get his rhythm into the island life, and it is good to see that we can take him ashore with us!

Missing Foods

If I have to talk about one sort of food I am missing when we are traveling, it would be definitely Italian food. So we went to a nice sourdough pizza place and enjoyed the delicious pizza knowing that it would be our last one for a long time. Eli was so exhausted by the swimming that he slept in the carrier during the walk! For lunch if I am missing pizzas, Veron is definitely missing ice creams. He loves ice cream so much, so for the dessert we went to a nice gelateria. Eli was fascinated by the dragon fruit color of mine.

Endings and Beginnings

To end this day in beauty, we went to the beach. Beaches are not rare in Indonesia but going in a bikini to the beach is not possible everywhere. After this delicious time in Gili Air, we were ready to pull the anchor and finally start our journey heading slowly in the direction of Southeast Sulawesi. It was not a windy day and we had to motor sail, but it is already quite late in the season and we have to cross to Sulawesi before the trade winds kick in. Sailing in a sunny day on an easy sea is a good thing for Eli and [Music]

First Passage

One good thing about the catamaran is as we are not healing, I can fill up the bathtub of Eli with sea water and give him a little swim to cool him down on a hot day like this. While we’re sailing from Gili Air around the top of Lombok to the anchorage that I had in mind, it was only 45 miles. I timed the tides right so that I sort of have the current with me most of the way and yeah as Marie said, very easy passage around the corner. This is an anchorage I’ve been to before in Sumbawa, it’s a bit of a dog-leg sort of through the reef to get in there but once you’re in, it’s nice. Seven or eight meters in mud, and uh we left the track on the plotter so we could get out if necessary at night. But um yeah, beautiful little place to stop after our first long passage.

The Water Baby

As you probably starting to realize Eli is just a water baby. He loves the salt water and he also loves being in the ocean but even in his bath with saltwater, he loves that too! You can see here as his emotions are uh starting to grow he’s very busy, very concentrated to be very happy and reacting to Mommy smiles. It’s pretty cool to see the changes.

Arrival at Our Anchorage

Well we’re anchored up safely here on the corner of Lombok, I don’t know what the name of this little island is but we had a successful 45 mile passage. Just motor sailed the whole way – probably more motor than sail. Had current with us most of the way though so it was sort of six six and a half knots and it all went pretty good! Baby was sleeping a bit, there was some breeze through the windows longest yet, and now he’s getting a well-deserved little cool bath saltwater bath. Have a rinse after and then hopefully he’ll have a bit of a sleep but he’s he’s enjoying life on the boat. And um so are we – nothing went wrong today it was good to have this little cruisy passage without you know, strong winds and squalls and we’re just you know getting our confidence back after blowing up on the reef as you saw in a couple of weeks ago’s videos. And yeah, we’re just going to ease back into this. And um say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow – yeah, say goodbye to Lombok tomorrow. We’ll be off to Sulawesi!

Conclusion

Thanks to our patrons for keeping us afloat, motivated, and going! Keeping baby and nappies in in us and in him at the end of the day. And um we’ll see you next week bye-bye. Bye-bye!