<h3>Heart of Asia</h3>
  <h3>Indonesia.</h3>
  <p>'The time has come' the walrus said 'to 
    speak of many things, of coral reefs and mud banks, of Dragons and permit-things.'
  </p>
  <p> I'm in Bali, having come via Waingapu and Komodo Island. The 
    one time our old charts with the words "there be dragons here" 
    was actualy correct. Unfortunatly may of out charts of Indonesia 
    are so old that they say there be dargons here all over the place 
    not just komodo.</p>
  <p>Well the journey from Darwin was uneventful in the begining, 
    too uneventfull there wasn't a breath of wind and it was hot hot 
    hot. hot like I've never even dreamed of. We decided to put into 
    Waingapu on Sumba Island, we didn't have an acurate chart but 
    we fugured we'd manage ok...... So we sat aground on a coral reef 
    for the best part of the morning, luckily no damage. We met some 
    friendly locals who all shouted "hello Meester" repeatedly, I 
    always though that was an asian steriotype....</p></td>
<img src="content/pic/trip1/grog.jpg" alt="Grog For Sale (kava) (grog.jpg)" border="0" align="right">
  <h3>Waingapu.</h3>
  <img src="content/pic/trip1/shark.jpg" border="0" alt="Shark on deck! shark.jpg" align="left">
      <p>We eventually got in there after negociating 
  the evil coral reef, and took a taxi into town, town turned out 
  to be a 400,000 person dump. All 400,000 of them said hello Meesta....... 
  It got to be a bit of a drag after a while the bank didn't really 
  exchnage any money and eventually gave us half the going rate. The 
  taxi had more speakers than seats and the base combined with the 
  very soogy suspetion made it feel like a malfuntioning fairground 
  ride. We got done eventually for not having cleard into indonesia... 
  Yep its that Permit-thing. So we informed them of our engine problem, 
  they didn't seem to mind, I think we're probably the only white 
  people they've seen in a couple of years. So off we went to Komodo 
  Island home of the Dragons, boy are they ugly! Komodo was smaller 
  and cleaner, the harbourmaster who was more used to Tourists but 
  missing the numbers due to the Timor crisis, caught us again but 
  didn't find out about our previous transgression in Waingapu becase 
  of a photocopied clearance from Darwin. We left Komodo and are in 
  Bali, which has lots of People and lots of rice and lots of hindu 
  temples.</P>
  <p>Its definatly not Autrailia Leaving for Singapore before we get 
  in more trouble.</p>
    <p>Next stop Singapore</p>
     <p>We headed off 
    asap to Lankawi, Malaysia duty free (and there was much rejoicing), 
    climed mountais etc, got drunk with Pierre (owner) and Duncan (skipper) 
    of Melanjen and got a place crewing on the kings cup!</p>
<img src="content/pic/trip1/KingsCup2.jpg" alt="Kinks Cup (KingsCup2.jpg)" border="0" align="middle">
  <p>At some 
    point I'll get tround to writing it up and putting it in here! -but 
    not today</p>