Sunny in Gili Trawangan

Gili Trawangan is the most populated and touristy of the 3 Gili Islands. We are spending a couple of days here before catching our "fast boat" back to Bali. Frankly it has been a little bit of a shock to the system to be here after the mellow, laid back vibe of Gili Air. Also everything is more expensive here. We are staying at a place in the village (a homestay) that is pretty far off the beach for about $15USD/night. Everywhere else we have been this would have gotten us wifi and a pool. But on Gili T this gets us a clean room 5 minutes from the beach with aircon. But it is nice to do some people watching.

But to cut our costs we have started eating more street food. Though I had two of the Big Bintangs beers tonight (At Rp30,000ish/$3ishUSD each) so I guess that negates the cheapo dinner.

In our new place we ended up with some great neighbors, one is even an American (only our 3rd encounter of the trip). We chatted at breakfast and then all went on a snorkel trip for most the day together. Julia is a German living in Ireland with the best, most unique accent ever. And Alex is the Cleveland Browns center travelling in the off season (here out of respect of our new friend I refrain from any digs at the Browns).

Snorkel trip with Julia & Alex

At this point I want to say HELL YA PATRIOTS. No one else on this side of the world really gets why it was so awesome of the Pats to smash Tebow into ground. Though from Alex I get the impression he didn't really want to talk shop with me about how great the Patriots are, not that I blame him much since he is on vaca.

Not to jinx us, but the weather seems to finally have shifted a little to a more enjoyable sunny realm. I can live with some sun, some cloudy and some rain. But the pouring down rain of the last couple of weeks was beginning to wear. Keep your fingers crossed for us the weather is improving. We have had 3 days in a row of nice weather.

baby turtle conservation project on Gili T