September 28,

We were up and around by 0700. Jeff said he had been awake since 0515. Sometimes I feel bad that I sleep in so late, but not bad enough to set an alarm or anything crazy like that! We had Javas out on our balcony. Our place had four other cars parked in the small hotel parking space. So they had more business on a Saturday night. When we finished our Javas, we went down to breakfast, having poached eggs and Nasi Goreng. We put one of the poached eggs on the dish instead of the hard fried egg. It is great! 👍🏻 We went back to our room and packed, checked out by 1000 and left.

From Wanagiri we will end up on the northeast side of Bali. It’s a 93 km drive to our final destination with Google maps giving about 2.5 hours drive time. But we will be making turnouts for some points of interest along the way. Our first such place was the Gitgit Waterfall. We found the parking area and had to pay 5,000 IDR (30 cents) to park. We had to cross the street to get to the ticket booth. It cost us 45,000 IDR ($2.70) each entry fee. We began our way down. The cement steps are in better shape, mostly, compared to the last waterfall, and definitely not as steep! Another thing we noticed, there are stands along the way selling tourists trinkets. We had not had this on our other waterfall ventures. Anyway we arrived and were rewarded yet again with a gorgeous waterfall, and there were quite a few people here (explaining the stands). We walked about taking in the power of the fall and taking turns getting our pictures. Someone offered to take our picture, but did not need us to reciprocate the gesture. Very nice! We left and hiked back out, loaded up. We went to the largest “supermarket” located here in the north of Bali and bought supplies, especially good bread, cheese, and ice. We’ve had trouble finding both of these items on the island here.

Next we went to the Northernmost point of Bali. As we drove there – the closer we got – the smaller the roads became! People were just looking at us. We were about 1,000 feet from our destination when the road – barely big enough for our car – became scooter width only. A lady had seen us at this juncture, which was her house and she was trying to clear stuff out of the road so we could continue on it. Then her husband came out to help. We motioned that we were going back. It looked as if they had just put in a cement speed bump… it appeared still wet. (As if anyone could go fast on this tiny road!) Anyway we, of course, did abandon, and I had to get out to help Jeff try to turn around.

Ahh man, that was a bummer! We did go out on the beach right close – where we could pull in – to park the car. From the black sand beach, we think we saw a tower that might have been the point. We noticed this beach is very much a fisherman’s work area. There were boats all lined up taking up most of the beach, and a few men out working their nets. We loaded up and moved on, but we probably gave the village something new to talk about!

Now we just drove the rest of the way to our new home for six nights. It is on the ring road of the island and in some places it has been newly widened and paved… very unexpected but making us appreciate infrastructure! We arrived in Kubu town and reached our final end point, Lunar Dive Resort: Bamboo Villas. It was 1445. We checked in with the lady owner (her accent sounded German). She gave us our key and explained she could not help us with our luggage as she has had bilateral knee replacements and can’t climb stairs. She had also said her husband is the dive master, but is under the weather and not able to dive right now. That was a bummer as Jeff wants to dive some (I don’t think I do). Anyway, she said if we were interested to let her know and she could arrange it through someone. So we unloaded in our second story studio-type place. We cooled down, then fixed some beef pepperoni with Gouda cheese sandwiches. After we finished we went for a swim in the lovely deep pool – it goes from 1.5 m to 4.5 m, or 4.9 feet to 14.76 feet. We assume this is for training divers.

Anyway, afternoon turned to evening and we just had a snack supper out on our patio. There was a view of the ocean one way and a 9,944 foot tall mountain volcano the other way.