One of us is wrong

 Bawean “the Island of women"


This little island can be ridden around on motorbike in a few hours, you have to stop every now and then to rest your face, everyone here is so pleased to see you it’s infectious, smiling and waving for hours isn’t easy, I have some sympathy for the Queen now, but not much.

"as of the 2010 Census was about 70,000 people, but more than 26,000 of the total (that is about 70% of the male population) were temporarily living outside, working in other parts of Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.[5] As a result, females constituted about 77% of the actual population of the island, which is thus often referred to as "the Island of Women” 

I meet a guy today that has two wife's, he looked exhausted! With the population the way it is it's no surprise, I could live here, but feel about half a wife would do me. I’ve been here anchored in a bay by the Town of Tambak for 5-6 days roughly, there isn’t any tourism to speak of here, so everyone is so genuine, altho I did meet a Guy from Singapore who claimed he was Jesus Christ, “One of us is wrong!”, the word ‘Supposition' springs to mind, this guy had been drinking at the well of supposition, like many others for some time.

There are a lot of beautiful homes here, all the money coming back from the men working away, funny tho they all face the street, shameless vanity, when I’d want mine overlooking the sea, facing the SouthEast sea breeze, down a long drive, another unusual thing is there are no dogs on the island, which is great after you’ve seen the flea ridden strays in other areas.

Someone remind me not to eat any more street food, it’s everywhere, but I must remember to have it at-least cooked in-front of me. There are no taxi’s here, but if you start walking people will ask with hand signals if you want a lift, this works even better if you just stand still, people want photos as well, I even held a baby for a shot yesterday, that was close enough, luckily the woman wanted it back, because I’d have no idea what to do with it.

Jesus in the hoody

A lot more stile than some of the boxes getting built back home, and a fraction of the price, 50k


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