Gili T (or dive dive dive)

Arriving Gili T

or Gili Trawangan as the name is. It is biggest out of 3 small islands just outside Lombok, or 1 hour on a speedboat from Bali.  The island have no motorised traffic on land, no cars, no scooters, only horse carts and bicycles. The island is known to be one of the old stopovers on the hippie trail, which mean that is has been, and still is quite a bit of drugs around. It is no police on the island, so it is pretty free for the ones that want to use. It has been raids from the police on Bali/Lombok, so it is not as much as it have been earlier as far as I understand. And when you know you can get the death penalty for drugtrafficing some people are taking a big risk, stupid.


As Indonesia is the country in the world with the biggest muslim population, you are bound the hear their calling for praying 5(?) times a day, so you do here at Gili T. and it is kind of nice in a way, even if I think it is enough with the church bells home. My accommodation is of the simple ones, my own small room w/bathroom for 1000 NOK for 8 days says it all, but it works and are safe and relatively clean. Sometimes been out of water and the water in the shower is salty and sometimes the electricity goes away on the hole island, just charming.

Came running for a pose when she heard the click from the camera.

I choose Gili T from back home and booked a room here for 8 nights, mainly because it seemed quite and that it might be some good diving here. And diving is all that this 8 days have been about. Found out that I could make my 500th dive on my birthday, and that is what I did. 17 dives in 7 days, maybe a personal record for me. Have been hard some days, but not much alcohol and early to bed and early up, it has worked out well. The diving have been very good, mostly good visibility, more than 20 m, lots of nice corrals and plenty of fish. Some sharks, lots of turtles, murene, lionfish, octopus’s, cuttlefishes, nudybrances, seen a big sea snake, the biggest nudybranch that exist, Spanish Dancer, pygme seahorse, maybee the smallest seahorse around and a lot of stuff I have no idea what the name is, mostly fish of some kind. Unfortunatly my flash stopped working, and also my underwater casing for the camera wasn’t totally ok, so not many picture from this place under water. A good excuse for coming back. Have been diving with the Blue Marlin, a good company w good staff.For the teck. divers they also have courses and dives. Showed my instructore licence, and got 25 % off the price, and have gotten more freedom, but also some responsibility in the way that I have taken over the group if the guide have gone up with some divers that have been low on air. Good or bad, have given me longer dive time, and the divers I have taken over have been good.

Expect diving, not much, eaten and had a few drinks in the evening, but it have all been about diving… and I have liked it. Socially, the people I have met have also only been divers, and mostly hung out w them during daytime and between the dives, so the evening have been quite socially.
  Tomorrow am I going back to Ubud, to meet up with my Intrepid group, that I going to travel with my last week, looking forward to it and wander what kind of people that I will travel with this time, have been really lucky to last times, and are pretty sure I will be that now too. Will also meet up with Valvanera again in Ubud, most likely. Fun.