Sulawesi Trip--Day 2--We Ride!

[bluerooster]

Monday, March 7
Ist cycle day 74 km
Palu - Tanjung Karang - Palu
This’ll be a warm up day for the rest of the trip
We’ll cycle along the scenic coastline of Palu Bay to the old port of Donggala then ocean swim and lunch at Prince John Dive Resort (Tanjung Karang)
Swimming (hotel) and Yoga
Accommodation in international hotel on Palu Bay

Comments

[podle]

Wow, I just want to fall into that picture.
When vegasjohnny and I were in Kona last year our hosts mentioned that there used to be so many fish that the water looked gold - but that people catching them and selling them to be put in aquariums had diminished them severely. That shit just makes me sad. People wanting to own everything, meh.

I'm glad you're continuing with the trip reports! Are you planning on keeping bees? Because that would be really cool.

[bluerooster]

I would like to keep bees someday. My folks have always had them. But I don't think I'll take Virgil's advice about bees. He has some strange ideas. Like, if your hive goes to shit and the colony dies, you can get a new colony by bludgeoning a young steer to death and leaving it in a small shack with 4 narrow windows until it putrefies, and then bees will come out ("voila!"). In fact the last third of that particular book of the Georgics digresses into a somewhat hallucinatory story about a poor kid who pissed off some nymphs and they killed his bees and he went crying to his mother, also a nymph, under a river, and after a lot of idle chat she tells him about the steer-killing method, THE END. It's like Virgil actually got tired of bees and wanted to get back to his favorite theme, nymphs and shepherds (see the Eclogues). Anyway. There's a reason the Georgics are not as popular as the Aeneid.

Anyway. Yes. Bees.