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Maumere to Alor - our latest photo cruise

6/11/2018

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In October we headed to Maumere on the north coast of Flores in eastern Indonesia where we started our cruise heading to Alor Island, 160 nautical miles east.
A bundle of exciting dives along the north coast of Flores, Solor, Adonara and Lembata with sharks galore  and excellent underwater visibility. Then down through the Alor Strait with dives around Ternate, Buaya, Pantar and Alor Islands. Then a return trip along the southern coastlines of the same islands exploring along the way.

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Approaching the active volcano on Lembata Island
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The beautiful reef below the volcano on Lembata Island
Some great new dives sites around these remote islands. For us the highlight was a visit to Beangabang Bay on the south east coast of Pantar Island. This beautiful bay lies between two headlands and has a natural hot spring on the beach, plus a tiny village perched on a hill.
This remote village has very friendly people, we were greeted on arrival by an outrigger canoe full of happy kids. We later went into the village as we had bought along some school supplies and footballs. We were mobbed by the kids when the footballs were distributed at the church, then the children took us to see their school and meet their teacher.
The visit bought home to us the reality of living in these remote islands. Grubby clothes, school books that were literally falling apart, a school that consisted of three rooms with a few old desks, a dirt playground and a flag pole: no computers, no fans, no lunch room, but these kids enthusiastically sang us their national anthem and a song about the sea and its bounty. Not a dry eye among us as they finished singing, and only just in time for the visiting ice cream man on his motorbike to give them all icey treats on us.
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Icey Treats after singing for us (two of our crew thought they deserved one too!)
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The teachers reference books
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This man was sitting on his verandah, we had a quick chat. He didn't know how old he was, but thought he was over 80!
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The school yard at Beangabang,
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Ladies selling Ikat woven blankets came out in their boat to see us in Alor
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Our happy group: Left to right: Marg Flierman, Gary Want, Anne Harris, Brent Macaulay, Dawn Mullins, Jeff Mullins, Maryann Evetts, Daryl Rapley, Michelle Mann, Michelle Bez, Gail Rapley.
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