Timing is everything
3 months ago, our ’08 Indo jaunt was looking to good to be true: dirt-cheap airfares with Rain Man’s airline of choice, 5-star accommodation at 2-star prices and a loose itinerary made up of epic waves and happy wives/girlfriends. Since then there’s been a few unavoidable slaps in the face, but the ones that really tang would have to be 1. a local protest-lead relocation of the Rip Curl Search WCT competition from Gnaraloo to Uluwatu, the end of its waiting period coinciding with the first three days of our trip, and now 2. a bunch of drunk taiwanese fisherman have parked their illegal fishing vessel on the reef at Padang Padang:
Taiwanese fishermen run aground at Padang Padang as locals make the best of a messy situation
“It didn’t take locals long to figure out that the Taiwanese boat had been illegally fishing in Indonesian waters. When the boat ran aground (Poor navigation? Too many Arak Attacks? Captain was wearing green? No one really knows why…), the entire crew of the vessel grabbed every bit of documentation they could and booked it on the Bukit. Gone. Audi 5000. Between the fines for illegal fishing and the cost of getting the boat off the reef, they were cutting their losses.”
What next?
Update: The intrigue increases…
And I’m selfishly rubbing my hands together at:
So maybe me having a bit of a whinge about it here will have some cosmic effect on the outcome. There’s also the possibility that they’ll move the waiting period forward so it’s smack bang in the middle of my trip! Blurg…
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