It was time for the walrus and his crew of goons to go wandering again and the festivities on this vacation would be taking place in Indonesia.
The plan was to fly into Bali where we would all rendezvous (there were 15 of us altogether) and then fly down to the Komdodo national park area for 10 days of diving on a liveaboard yacht before returning to Bali for a few extra cheeky days R and R and then back to our respective destinations.
We landed in Bali in good spirits to the open arms of the majority that had already arrived ... bintangs were quaffed in abundance and we headed to Kuta beach to check out the view -
After a night celebrating we were up early for the morning flight from Bali to Bima on the island of Sumbawa and had a cracking view as we came in over the flooded paddy fields -
Safe and sound in Bima -
We had a few hours to kill in Bima before embarking onto the dive boat so checking out the local area was in order, heres a local noodle soup seller -
Da Bima boyz -
Local weavers -
The local transport -
The local market -
The locals were very friendly and after an interesting few hours in Bima we headed to the port -
This is the boat we were going to live on for the next 10 days, her name is SY Siren and she is 34 metres long and is a truly beautiful beast.
She's owned and run by the guys at Worldwide dive and sail and is fully equipped for long diving and sailing trips -
Our dive trip was to take us all around the Komodo national park area including the Sunda and Rinca island groups.
In fact there were shit loads of islands all over the place so the only thing to do was to get stuck into the local grog, raise the sails and ahoy mateys, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum ... and with all that we sailed off into the horizon.
Here are some different views of the 'SY Siren' -