Thursday, March 18

Thursday, March 18

After a relaxing cup of tea we decided to go to the southern portion of the beach in Sanur where Steph used to go last time she was in Bali. Sanur is basically an eastern facing coastline with about 5km of white sand beaches and some large hotels, including the Hyatt Bali. Since we’re towards the northern part of Sanur we jumped in a cab that took us down the beach until we found our lunch spot. Most café’s or restaurants that are on the beach also have chairs and umbrellas, which, if you eat there you can use for free. After lunch (probably the worst Indonesian food I’ve had thus far) we rented two kayaks for the minimal price of 20,000 rupiahs or $2. Since it’s the low season here the guy let us keep the kayaks all afternoon, instead of charging us 20,000/hour. The Sanur beach is protected by a reef about 200 yards off shore so we paddled out there to see if we could see any fish. Unfortunately we forgot to grab the snorkeling gear from the house but we were still able to see a handful of brightly colored starfish. We were joined by numerous local fisherman who would set-up nets attached to bamboo poles that were driven into the ocean floor to catch the fish – imagine 5 men making a big circle with the nets to trap the fish. It’s one of those scenes you’d see in National Geographic with the men wearing big conical straw hats and a classic wooden fishing boat.

After an hour on the kayaks we headed back to shore where we relaxed on the beach until sunset. Since we now have our own kitchen we went to the supermarket to buy some groceries and to make some dinner. We decided to keep it pretty simple and went with noodle soup and shrimp w/ butter and garlic sauce and for dessert fresh papaya and watermelon.

The first dinner we made here.

Shrimp and noodle soup...MMM

Steph cooking the shrimpies