Randal is just washing down the back of the boat washing off pounds of salt!  I bet there are too pounds of salt. It’s amazing and slick to grip too.  Not good for stainless steel or anything on the boat.

  Here is a quick painting I did of Labuanbajo.

  We are here to meet Sail Indonesia (they have a web site)  Most boats joined in Darwin, Australia.  Some are here already, but most will arrive September 6th.  Hard to type September it has been August for so long!  There are lots of small islands with low hills surrounding the anchorage.  Not far from us in the island famous for the Komdo Dragon lizards and we mean to see them.  As you can tell from my painting, lots of sail boats here.  We may be the only “stink pot” in the group.  A curiosity item.  We had one visitor early this morning wanting to see the “Diesel Duck” he had read about. 

  So just this quick bit for now. 

GO SOX!!!!!!

Ru

ps  biak meaning good is pronounce bike.  I can remember that.  Most words I stumble over and can’t make the correct sounds.  Petra tried to teach me something and I just couldn’t roll the R around long enough to get it to sound right.  I will try to include the pronunciations if I know how.  Thanks Lois for the suggestion.  Terima kasih (Thank You)  Drema ka’see is how I pronounce it.I could remember it because I worked with a woman named Drema at the library.  It took tricks like that for me to remember things.