I wanted to get to Amed as quickly as possible, and explained that we needed to beat the mobs that descend in the arvo, driving the hotel prices up. Really I had a date with a few binnies with my name on them. We tried several places, but quickly realised that our last 10 bucks wasn't gonna swing it, so in desperation we headed to (the name escapes me). Its a bit east of the Three Brothers. Anyway, Emms, Sean and I ended up with a 2 bed no aircon unit by the road, and Robbie and Sue scored a beauty aircon job up the hill, with a huge dble bed and extensive view, for about 5 bucks more.
Unloading our gear we shot over the road to the cafe/resturant and I asked the price of a binnie. Well if I thought I had died and gone to heaven in Lovina, then some bugga had returned and turned my coffin over, so that when I dug my way out, I was in a far different place. 17,000rp plus tax for a smallun!!!!! Sean grabbed his snorkelling gear and asked me if there were any sharks out there. Of course not matey, away ya go. Wondering if there were, I checked the travel insurance policy regarding pay out for shark attacks whilst I nursed a bloody expensive warm binnie.
Watching a dark shadow in the water slowly circling Sean, I started dreaming of retiring in Lovina with the money from the insurance, when I realized it was Emms out there with him. Relaxing a bit and watching them having a great time, a head pops up from the beach looking at me. 'I know you' says this local.'I know' I replied 'we went to school together, and ya still owe me 10,000rp for letting you peep through that hole in the sheilas changing room'. Money owed! Suddenly he didn't know me and sashayed off in hunt of another victim for his carved boats.
Cripes, only 2 swigs of me binnie later, a smaller version of the same head pops up. (perhaps selling smaller boats)? 'I know you' he says. 'Dead right matey', I shot back. 'I went to primary school with ya twin sisters, and used to sneak around to your place after dark, how are their kids now'? He mumbled something, and said that perhaps he was mistaken. I said 'I think you are right actually, as it wasn't me, it was a mate of mine, and it was in NZ that it happened'.
Clarifying that little misunderstanding, he went on to try and sell me a little boat which he pronounced parrrr a haa. An hour, and seven more warm binnies later, we agreed to disagree on the worth of the merchandise and he too shuffled off in search of another victim. On reflection I really should have gone to the 750rp I was prepared to pay.
I realized that the warm binnies were costing me granmas inheritance here, and asked the waiter if they have happy hour. They didn't, but to his credit, he leaned in and whispered that Three Brothers do, and that their beer was cheaper and colder. Beauty, with that sorted I wandered waist deep into the sea and stood still for a while, until Emms and Sean swam up to me commenting on how warm the current was just around me.
Later that arvo the 5 of us wandered up the road toward the Three Brothers, reading the menus of the little warung and restaurants, until we came to a place right on the waters edge that were selling the binnies for only an arm a go. We settled in, decided to try a few and come back later for grub. Seany snorkelled in front of us and then swam in their pool. Ahh the best laid plans eh. The guys started bringing us fresh, piping hot roasted peanuts with our beers and then we decide the place was so nice that we would not probably be able to get a table later as it would be so popular. So we stayed. Several hours, many peanuts and binnies later, we ordered our meals and sat in an empty restaurant, looking out through the hawking kids at little sail boats dotting the ocean. Bliss.
We waltzed back to our units and lay sweating under mosquito netting and listened to Robbie and Sue stumble up the shear wall to their unit. Moonlight was filtering in through the holes in the roof, mossies were bombing the netting, I was telling Sean that we couldn't help the fact that mum and my bed was very noisey and squeaky, and to shut up and go to sleep.
Another day in paradise.
Regards Ianz