The morning ambles starting with a family breakfast and then excited preparations by the children and John for their first trip to the beach. They are headed for Jimbaran bay and apparently I have to go, now that I have been fortified by fruit. I have been lead to understand that Kakapos don't really 'do' beaches. It messes with our claws, with sand getting between our toes, not to mention salt and sand through my plumage.
After yesterday, we all know it is not a quiet amble down small lanes to the beach. Instead we take the taxi through the throngs of traffic. Toni says she visited Jimbaran 20 years ago when the Four Seasons was first being built and remembers a quiet laid back beach side resort. Just like my bush home, life is being taken over by people and machines. 35,000 IDR gets us to the beach. This seems a ridiculous amount of money though apparently when you take 1 NZD, you can exchange this for 9131 IDR or Indonesian Rupees. So our taxi to the beach is less than 4 NZD. I think I still would have preferred a slow amble along coconut lined lanes.
Bali really does have traffic problems and the government is doing it's best to overcome this by introducing buses, though the cost for a local to go on the bus each week for work etc. by far exceeds the cost of paying off and running a motorbike. Consequently the traffic situation is only destined to get worse.
Arriving at the beach, the kids are ecstatic to find waves and Toni and John carry me to the Southern end of the beach where there are people sweeping up the litter that bubbles in the surf and gets dumped on the beach. After a bit of sunbathing it was time to have lunch and Toni susses out the use of the Olympic size pool at the Four Seasons hotel and the price of lunch. The kids meals are a veritible feast - I didn't get a look in! The kids were so hungry they had more than one meal each. After lots of Indonesian food they enjoyed pizza and burgers. Toni and John ordered the Indonesian menus (150,000 IDR) this cost about 16 NZD each. Toni enjoyed Sashimi and Snapper. I nibbled on a little of her Salad and enjoyed a feast of home baked breads with Dukkah that was bought along for our enjoyment.
The kids swam lengths and thoroughly exhausted themselves whilst Toni, John and I people watched the very wealthy people residing at the Four Seasons. All sandy, salty and satiated we headed back to the villa through the traffic. Toni made everyone eat lots of veges at the local restaurant and we all retired from another day.
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