Time for Swimming
Out of quarantine and wandering around the complex. View of 29th Floor rooftop lap pool and the ground floor pool complex. Certainly is swimming weather at 92 degrees celsius.
Exploring and Snorkeling in the Gili Islands
On Friday, took a one-hour ride on a jukung, a traditional wooden Indonesian boat to the Gili Islands, a popular destination for divers and partiers and laid-back expats. First stop was Gili Trawangan, the biggest and most lively of the islands, though COVID has turned Gili T, as the locals call it, into something resembling a ghost town. Then we motored to Gili Air. It was even emptier. However, I liked it much more than Gili T in that it is much more rustic in its commercialization and somehow it seems as though the place is carrying on in a fashion as it may have existed before tourist development started to take place in the 1980s. Off the shallows of Gili Air, my guides took me snorkeling. No photos, I am afraid. I had enough of a challenge figuring out how to deal with my mask and snorkel and float suit and fins to worry about photography. After I took to the water, I learned why my guides had been carrying a bottle filled with chunks of bread around with them in the b...
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