If your name is David.....you might want to turn your computer off NOW!!

  Wow it's stinking hot here ( hmmm could be because we're close to the equator or something) anyways cause I think I'm teflon man or maybe mirror man ( the suns rays don't affect me).. ( Carrie has a different name for me) anyways, wow I'm kinda burnt....but I look really , really , really good. It's been nice just relaxing here, alot of the tourists seem to have left.We've been diving every day and the dives have been good, with new and exciting stuff we've never seen before, on every dive..for example, and I would encourage you to google this... we saw a frogfish and a nudibranch today...very cool.
  We walked the main road yesterday, which sort of goes down the middle of the island, and we saw a bunch of people dressed up for a pre wedding party on their scooters and motorcycles, driving to what looked like a temple.The women were dressed in fancy dresses, riding side saddle and the men in sarongs with white shirts and white hats, it seemed like most of the island had turned out for it.
   OK is there anybody left in Austrailia, because I'm sure they're all here ...or quite possibly whistler. We've met a few nice people here, Evan from New York , a lawyer with a heart, traveling the world, Son from Melbourne, a yoga practising chef with a sunny disposition, getting away from things for a couple of weeks.
  While I'm working on this very exciting post, Carrie is trying to figure out how to get our pictures online for you to see....cross your fingers, we're hoping it all works.... cause again we're old and our brains have trouble processing most anything these days.
  We've decided to stay till fri the 25th and catch the ferry back to the mainland and go to Ubud, and get some hindu culture. There also is a yoga dance festival there next week  ( one of the reasons Son is here) , so we thought maybe we would get in and out before the festival starts. I also would like to be diving on my birthday, so hopefully getting to the Gilli islands off of Lombok is a possibility.
  Ok David... you knew it was coming...if you decided not to come , of course it was going to happen!!! So...................we ........went ..................diving ..................this morning.................to ..........a ......dive ..........site...........called........................................................................................................................
MANTA POINT. Guess what we saw at MANTA POINT, Yup dude , buckets and buckets of manta rays, they were everywhere, big ones about 15 to 18ft wing tip to wingtip and small ones about half that, they were one at a time or 5 at a time , all in 15ft of water, it was amazing. They must be used to people, or divers because they swam close enough for you to touch them, not that I did, although I think some people did.
   Just for giggles...clownfish ( read Nemo) are quite territorial and aggressive, I had one yesterday swim up at me and try to brush my hand ( he touched me , not the other way around) away from his or her anenome patch... fun and suprising.
  love to all
glen and carrie

We're diving now

   Ok this could take forever because I have the worn out keyboard and I have to guess at some of the letters. Ok we made it to Nusa Lembongan... to catch up, we got to Sanur at just before  4 pm ...the same time as the last ferry to Nusa Lembongan and of course it pulled away as we were paying for the tickets. It was actually allright cause they we're trying rip us off anyways, they had us paying for the fast boat and were going to put us on the slow public boat. Speaking of the ripping off stuff... you know your paying the foreigner price, they know ,you know, your getting ripped off, or at least after a while you realize your getting ripped off. But really they're ripping you off by 20 or 30 cents , maybe a dollar, in the long run maybe it makes a difference, but really in my mind it's the game you play. They play it , you play it, sometimes you lose , sometimes you win ...no harm , no foul.. we won on the bus the other day, he shrugged it off, just the way it goes.
  So we ended up staying in Sanur for the night, we ended up staying at the hotel right next to the ferry dock, right on the beach, all for $20 US...who would have thought.OK not the greatest hotel in the world but close to all the happening stuff, ( not that, that mattered , cause I think we were in bed by 9 or 10 , something old like that) decent mattress, NO call to prayer and tea waiting on our veranda ( fancy huh!!)( is that the word for table outside our room?) in the morning.
  So the guide book says: and I can't remember the exact quote, but it's something like: there is no dock, the ferry just comes into shore, YOU WILL GET WET!! so.... don't be a dumbass and bring your wheeled luggage through the sand...people will laugh at you. TA DAH...a whole bunch of dumbasses.
   We're staying at a pretty nice place on the beach, the island is a little more developed than we expected, but still it's very nice...hmmm seem to be doing alot of staring at the screen so I will get out of here with this: Saw Nemo today, I was very excited to see him , we exchanged pleasantries, he said to say hi and hoped everything was well...great fish!!

love you all
glen