Hi all,

Patrick sent these photos along so I could share them with you.  Labarque certainly deserved a better photo than one of her on the hard.  All of the photos are by Patrick and Elizabeth  unless otherwise noted. Thank you to all of the photographers.  We are meeting lots of really nice people as we cruise along and articles like Patrick’s lets you get to meet them also.

Ru

Doramac

Labarque sailing taken by Yacht Lady Anne

Kupang Bemo West Timor Photo by Yacht Enzo

I think Patrick and Elizabeth must have had great faith to get into this bemo (van.)

How on earth could the driver see.

Their welcoming committee on West Timor

Each rally is different and our Indonesia rally didn’t stop there, or perhaps stopped there before we joined on since we started from The Philippines and the rally really starts from Darwin. In any case, Doramac didn’t go to West Timor.

Mosque at first light, Alor (It looks like an oil painting!)

Randal and I didn’t go to Alor either.

The Chief of Alor.

Grease pole climbing on Flores

We did go to Flores and that’s where we began to catch up with our Indonesia Rally but the events had already ended. We had taken our Slovenian hitch hikers Petra and Janez to Flores from Makassar.

Fishing port, Makassar.

Makassar was Doramac’s first stop in Indonesia. It was from Makassar that we took our land trip to Tana Toraja. We really liked Makassar though it we weren’t there as part of the rally.

Balinese dancers by Yacht Windmiller.

It took me a while to realize these were men. Randal and I were in Bali but didn’t see the dancers. Bali, with its lovely town of Ubud was definitely a favorite or ours.