A couple of days ago we paid for a trip out to Litchfield park and to the Adelaide river to see crocodiles. In Litchfield was some nice waterfalls and some pools we could swim in. Also lots of termite hills, see pictures. Yesterday we had a four hour briefing from the rally organizers.
This blog, as throughout Australia, describes all Indonesian anchorages we used and their waypoints.
We are planning to leave Darwin in two days, that is this Friday morning. As soon as we clear customs and get our Indonesian cruising permit we will be off. We are leaving a day before the official start of rally so we do not have to sail at night with so many boats around and also not be one of the last boats into Kupang as we are one of the smallest in the Rally. The weather forecast is looking good with a good sailing breeze from the SE. We will be leaving the modern western world for foreign cultures of Asia, and will be seeing the Muslim world for the first time.
Indonesia has about 230 million people and is the largest Muslim country in the world. This will be the last blog update until we get to Kupang on Timor our first stop. That is if we can find descent Internet service. We figure it will take us about 4 days to do the 450 miles. There is about 70 other boats in the Rally and after Kupang a lot of the boats will go their own way. The Rally takes care of the complicated paper work that you would have to do if you went on your own, and also we don't have to pay the boat bond with the rally.
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