Land at last - Komodo Island

Day 13 continued
Another pizza lunch, with our Algies Bay cruisers, Susan & Allan.  We have decided that we prefer the vegetarian option - yum.  After lunch we went down to Crooners for a coffee as we'd missed our usual morning fix.  Although we thought we had the Barista trained, our triple shot flat whites were once again basically tasteless.  It is not that they can't do it, as we have had perfect ones previously, but I don't think they (the company) wants to.  Watch this space.  Did our usual walk at 5.00, when the temperature was more pleasant and before it got dark - the downside of turning the clocks back. 

Promenadegate continues to escalate 😀.  The forward half of the deck is now closed from midnight to 7.00am, as there have been complaints from passengers on Deck 6 about the noise from above.  Not that I doubt it, *BUT* people have been perambulating the Promenade for years and the only request I have previously seen, is to refrain from running before 7.00 - not a total closure.  Of course when half the deck is closed, walkers must alternate between clockwise and anti-clockwise - in breach of the earlier edict.  Thankfully it doesn't affect us as we are not up that early.

Day 14 - Komodo Island
Woke early with the sound of the tenders being prepared. The first group are set to leave at 7.30, which is far preferable to those going at 10.00 or 11.00, in the heat of the day.  I am not sure of the temperature but it feels like 30° as there is no wind, clear skies and obviously smooth seas as we sit at anchor. 

I was right, less than 50% have gone ashore.  Sitting here on our deck, I can't see any dragons marauding around, despite the dire situation described in the port talk.  We are actually surprised at the size of the island, which is much bigger than we recalled and clearly the bulk of the dragons are contained in a pretty small area.

Lunch as usual in the MDR and we had the Dunedin couple at our table.  They had done the  tour and had seen the large "show" dragons as well as a couple of smaller ones.  They were happy.  We then heard the report of one group that were "attacked" by not 2 but 3 dragons and had to run away from them.  We knew that it is mating season and the group came upon a couple of males fighting for supremacy and there was another dragon on the other side of the track, so it was all on.  No doubt there will be numerous other stories, but this one has been verified, so we have lost our bragging rights to Komodos!