Bima to Lombok Island Indonesia

We left Bima the next morning at about 11am to do an overnight passage to Pulau Medang, anchorage #52 in 101 book 95 miles away.   It was a good but busy overnight sail.  No moon to help. We saw two groups of fish boats of  about 15 to 20 just off to port over several hours with bright lights on.  .  We were out about 3 miles so just beyond most of them and then to stbd a couple miles out saw about 5 ships go by, so we had to be on our toes all night.
We managed to sail about two thirds of the distance in moderate winds.  By 10 am we were there and dropped anchor in 35ft at 08 08.490   117 22.376.   Not much here but is a nice beach that we took a walk on.  We were visited by 20 year old boy in a canoe.  He brought us a couple of eggs as a gift, would not take money for them. He wanted to come on board and talk. His English was not much better than our Indonesian so we did a lot of sign language and drawing.  He was a really nice guy and we enjoyed his company. When we gave him a juice in a tetra pack he just threw it overboard when he finished it and he could not understand our reaction when I rowed out in the dinghy to retrieve it. We burned it with our other garbage later on the beach and buried the remains.
This anchorage got somewhat bouncy later in afternoon when wind came from North.

We left at 5:30 am next day to do the 43 miles to the Island on NE corner of Lombok.  It is important to get there before 3pm to have good light to see the reefs at entrance to this anchorage.
We managed to sail about two thirds of the distance in good 12 to 18 knot SW wind.   The anchorage is # 57 in 101 book  We anchored in 19 feet at 08 17.736   116 41.394.  The approach waypoints in the book were good.  But I would add another WP between D and E  08 17.889   116 41.300 as this is the critical part where you enter the reef and they have the WP's too far apart. The first three WP are easy lots of room but the entrance to reef is somewhat narrow at WP D.  The current also pushed us sideways a bit because we were going too slow.  After you are inside the current seemed to disappear. Was a good quite anchorage with a small beach if you needed to go ashore.  Good place to break up trip to Lombok. We had 3 boats in there with no problem. Room for a couple more.  Managed to get some Internet here sitting in cockpit. Had Pegasus and Freeform over to our boat for some good conversation  before dinner.
    Freemform did a good deed and towed a broken down fishing boat from the anchorage to the town across the channe as we were leaving in morning.. Good on you guys.

We left anchorage about 8am after we could see the water a bit.  It is 40 miles to the Medana beach anchorage and we had to motor almost all off it as had little wind. It came up a bit late in day and then on the nose, and we had a half knot current against us most of way.  We used the approach wp in the Lombok handout and they were good (see below).  We first anchored in 62 feet at 08 21.722  116 07.774 as all the buoys were taken except for one almost on the beach.  The next morning a boat left and we picked up a mooring for 80,000RP   The moorings are a bit close together for some of them and there is room for about 7 or 8 boats on moorings.  Don't try to use the black balls marking the edge of the reefs.  The mooring are also black balls but are more in the center off the beach. 
We took our laundry in to get washed and have an order in for a bit off diesel and can buy water here as well and the dinghy dock even has a tap for washing water. This place is much cleaner than we have seen so far, liitle garabge and also much more english spoken here. The people at the marina are helpful here and have good english. Great place to stay a while, even cold showers here, our first since Australia.
Approach WP for Medana Beach  08 20.069  116 08.361 then 08 20.342   116 07.636 then 08 21.833  116 07.750