I found the anchorage here on Rote Island to be mesmerizing. It was especially beautiful from high up above.
Ouest getting into a wave.
About every third house has these molotov cocktails (or gas for their scooters) for sale out front.
This is very much a one road surf town. Surf accommodations (mostly small and rustic) and restaurants on the waterfront side, and a few restaurants across the street. All very good, all very inexpensive, and all very familiar with their mostly surf clientele. It feels like a place that is one wealthy investor away from being ruined—as if it is flying under the radar right now. Like Sayulita, Mexico when the streets were still dirt. I feel lucky to have sailed in here.
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Your are making your own luck. We went to Bali on a spur of the moment decision last summer and spent two months. It is beautiful with the most lovely and spiritual people, ubiquitous excellent food and service at insanely low prices, overall the country is far more economical in every sense than Mexico. Yet it is choked with so many tourists it’s difficult to even walk the streets and the traffic jams become almost impassable. Our driver told us about the famous Instagram locations that now require getting a ticket to line up for a posed photo, it takes hours. It must have been wonderful thirty years ago but now it’s sad watching an entire people serving western tourists in search of their social media moments.