Saturday 7 March – new neighbours on Gilli Banta island

All four cats left in the morning, Seb must have been early as he was already gone when I went up to get our second cup of tea. I spent most of the day getting the last of our laundry done and repairing the trampoline, which has a pretty big hole in it. I’ve made it safe which is all that is needed for now, the new one is already made in France (£10,000!), we will bring it back from the UK when we return to the boat in September. Rowan went for a long snorkel around the headland which was pretty bouncy, he saw some lovely coral but very little fish life.

In the evening we were checking our NFL app, planning our departure tomorrow as we think the swell and wind will have died down a bit, when we spotted that two cats had arrived in the bays either side of us. We have met Samudra in Raja Ampat they are going the same direction as us to Lombok, an Australian family with kids. The other boat Roam1 is heading to LBJ. We never saw them enter the bays, so if we had not seen them on the App we would have had no idea we had neighbours. We had a couple of evening squalls and are crossing everything that it blows the weather away and we can move on tomorrow.