Day 149 Dec 31 2014 Candidasa Bali Indonisia

LOADED AND READY FOR NEW YEARS EVE

I always liked the 3 stooges

waiting for the best pizza in Candidasa

Day 149 Dec 31 2014  Candidasa Bali Indonisia

We started going to Amed to do some snorkeling and were 1/3 of the way there when Isabel started to get cramps.  We made an emergency stop at a gas station washroom then turned around and went back to the apartment.  Evy stayed with Isabel while David and I went snorkeling at Blue Lagoon.   There were lots of people snorkeling there and I did not really understand why there were so many scuba divers there.  White Sands would be a much nicer place to scuba dive as there are a fair number of corals and they are quite a bit deeper and did not seem to be as damaged.  We saw a few eels and and lots of other fish, with Davids favorite being a small stone fish.  I did not see the stone fish until David pointed it out to me and it still took me a while to locate it.  When we got back from snorkeling the four of us went across the street to eat lunch.  Isabel was feeling better by then and was able to enjoy the restaurant pool along with her brother.  David and I went for a walk to look for fireworks when we left the restaurant.  We purchased 4 roman candles with 8 shots each for 100 k idr ($10.00).  In the evening we went for a walk to see if we could find more fireworks. We ended up purchasing some spinners and a large roman candle.  Our apartment is 100 meters away from where the majority of the town meets to shoot off fireworks at midnight.  It was so different than anything I have seen in Canada.  There were 100s of people lighting small fireworks up and down the coast for as far as I could see.  There were fireworks going off constantly for at least 20 minutes with a concentration at midnight.  During the night Evy started throwing up and had diarrhea,  the first case of serious food poisoning on the trip.  I am pretty sure it was from what we ate at lunch as that was the only time that we ate different food.