Komodo Island and the Komodo Dragons- delayed



One very hot komodo dragon hiding in the smallest shade.
 Not frisky today at all.




Approaching the absolutely stunning Komodo Island
 and some of the 162 islands.




This it the food that sustains the dragons.
 They are part of the animal kingdom here.
Nothing is brought to the island for Komodo's. Self sufficient.




And the boats just keep on coming everyone wants to sell us something.
This one brought lots of wooden Komodo Dragond.
 Look at the size of the one on the front of his boat.
 Of course they are careful coming near Cognac
and we have looooottttssssssssss of scratches...this one is
 part of the whole experience.




Well we did not want to buy Komodos so guess what...
another proposition...pearls...small ones tiny ones and great big ones too.
 They apparently come from this area.




This was a classic a father and son team on a hand made boat
 with a small  polystyrene outboard.




And yes they had dragons to sell too. Very small an absolute classic...




Most of the area around Komodo Islands was rather turbulent.
 Very large areas of currents willies the size of 2-10 m.
This required total attention skill strong hands at times and a lot of time.




This one also a classic.I was too tired to take a photo at this anchorage and
 this little boys was maybe just old enough to walk got into a boat and paddled
 all the way just to see Mister..oh he could not speak yet..worth a picture



Cognac and friends boat Apsara at the entry to Komodo National Park.
We were charged for moring(parking) outside for the short 2 -3 hours
 we spent there and got approximately 17 receipts for it
 each stamped and stapled and placed in an envelope...
unbelievable and that is Indonesia