Sailing out of Alor Island was bitter sweet as we'd had such a great time there. We were sent off by a huge pod of dolphins and had a very calm overnight sail to our next spot. Now this place is not in any guide books and I hadn't seen any other boats going there but a local guy called Ridwan had sent me a few pictures and told me it was a very beautiful place. We arrived just after sunrise and saw right away that we'd found something special. Anchoring in 14m of water with a submerged sand island a few meters off our stern we truly had found a little piece of paradise. This video is only 12min long but we spent nearly a week here. No villages nearby, no sounds other than nature, just true bliss.
Enjoy this one guys.

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good morning

good morning

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so after an amazing two weeks exploring

allure island we hoisted the anchor and

set off for our next destination

it was an easy 100 mile journey

which we decided to do overnight uh it's

just cooler and easier

to sail at night sometimes and also

arriving in the

early morning in a new location is

better than trying to

stress and arrive in the evening there's

so many volcanoes around this area

and we just passed a few great ones but

a real amazing one was uh just on sunset

we passed this great volcano

so beautiful the sun going down right

behind the peak

it was a real cool end to the day

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bye bye

another day finished

we arrived at the new anchorage uh just

on sunrise and

wow what an amazing amazing place we got

told this place actually by a local guy

called ridwan

he'd been contacting me on facebook and

and said you gotta go you gotta go you

gotta go

and it wasn't in the guidebooks it

wasn't anywhere but we just trusted him

and

and man so happy thanks redwan for for

giving us this spot

enjoy

how incredible is this place though look

at this

huge volcano in the background sandbar

just tide going out another hour and

this will be dry

the alien over here just you can just

swim over to the sandbar

pull the dinghy up that's a big lagoon

all out here that goes nearly dry

in the uh low tide just enough to make a

perfect mirror

this place is incredible it's so

incredible i'm not even gonna tell you

where it is

this is uh somewhere that i hope

never gets super super well known

the world needs places like this to

remain

anonymous

so we've climbed up on this tiny little

island beside where we're anchored

no idea where it's called but they've

burned it off so it's a super moon

landscape but all around as you can see

is pretty incredible with the

volcano in the background wow

just a little while or a big while

it's a big one it's a big well yeah

what's cool about this place are the

bats i don't know anything about bats

if any of you out there know what sort

of bats these would be we're thinking

fruit bats or flying foxes but

probably just normal fruit bets pretty

incredible to see them up that

close um i'm not sure how upset they got

with me flying the drone around

but i only flew for a few minutes just

to get some footage and then

they settle down again pretty quickly

afterwards and then after dark they're

all just like millions of them all just

take off the whole sky is full of them

pretty incredible to witness this

but yeah this whole surroundings is just

incredible here

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awesome

did

go

we've had an amazing stay in in the

place that shall remain nameless

and we are now leaving i'll show you

pulling up the anchor marie's going to

drive the boat forward as i pull in the

anchor

that's the wind is pushing us back off

the anchor obviously

okay let's go the wind is pretty strong

today

it's over 20 knots

24.5 knots right now and we're not in

the best spot

as you can see right behind us is the

the sandbar and we haven't moved but i'm

not

that confident and we've been here long

enough and it's a good day to sail to

our next spot it's about

35 miles to our next place so we're

going to cruise

out of here and go there well we're

underway now

just to head sail out uh the wind has

already died but that's indonesia

sailing it's it's like there's a sixth

sense

here as soon as you put a sail up the

wind just dies every time or all goes

straight

on the nose you know straight in front

of you but it's a very very beautiful

country as you've seen in this video

pretty magical place thanks for watching

i'm not even gonna say i hope you

enjoyed that i'm sure you enjoyed that

because

yeah how could you not it was amazing

here's a little slideshow to finish it

off

some pretty nice drone shots from up

there uh

marie modelling in the sand doing some

handstands etc

join us next week for i don't know what

yet

but it will be something pretty cool and

uh yeah once again thanks to the patrons

very very cool i say it every week

actually you're probably sick of hearing

it but it really does mean a lot to us

and uh it puts the food on our plates

and uh

the diesel in the tanks right now it's

our income so um

thanks for the continued support bye-bye

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you