We then took a mini bus to the north of Lombok and had to wait an hour for the Gili ferry (a small boat with bamboo supports/floats on each side, should hold about 20 people) where we were yet again pounced on by more hawkers who also wanted us to give them english coins, hats, shoes, shirts infact anything they could see us with! When realising we are english they all started coming out with classic del boy quotes like 'lovely jubbly' and 'water in majorca'?? and quoting football players names 'micheal owen and david beckham' it was quite amusing...

We finally got on the ferry... all 30 of us! and made our way out in what seem quite choppy water. It wasnt until we were at the second island that i started to get worried as the waves were huge and crashing over the side of boat (everyones backpacks were also getting soaked!), but the last 100 meters was the worst, the waves by this time were huge (i felt like george clooney!) and just as we got to the shore we saw lots of boats heading back out... another boat that left at the same time as us had capsized and there was a rescue mission going on (they were all locals onboard and were all safely rescued).

The Gili Island of Trawangan is where we stayed for five days and took about an hour and a half to walk around.

It was surrounded by coral beaches (which are actually quite uncomfortable compared to sand) and the sea had the strongest undercurrent ive ever felt (not safe for swimming, apparently due to the season).

I decided to spend my time diving and experienced some of the best underwater marine life so far! I was swimming with adult white tip reef sharks (danger danger... not this time stevo) which are quite harmless unless you had an open wound. I also saw some turtles... lets get back to the sharks... they came quite close and just seem to glide through the water in convoy and then as quickly as they appeared, just drifted into deep water and out of sight. I saw six off them on that occassion. It was fantastic!