Wild Encounters from Borneo to Bali - 3

September 20, 2014

Pulau Senua, in Riau Island Province, Indonesia

Local Dancers

This morning we anchored near Pulau Senua, another uninhabited island. To begin the morning we took the Zodiacs to a beautiful white sand beach. We walked a short distance to where a group from another island in the chain presented a variety of traditional dances to entertain us. At the end they engaged our fellow passengers in the dances and had their pictures taken with some of us.

We then enjoyed the warm water. Some snorkeled and Paul even rode on the glass bottom boat before we went back to the ship for lunch. In the afternoon we enjoyed two presentations. Jack Swenson, one of our photo instructors, talked to us about “Bringing Light to Life.” Next we had a presentation entitled “Introduction to the Malay Archipelago” given by Dr. Lawrence Blair, our Global Perspectives guest speaker.

After the evening recap and briefing, we had a Seafood BBQ out on the back deck café. It was delicious. This is the first trip (cruise) we have been on where the weather was warm enough to have both breakfast and lunch and sometimes dinner at the Outdoor Café on the back deck.

That's it for now. Grace and Paul