America's Cup and Tiare Taporo III cruising Indonesia

Like the rest of NZ no doubt we have been listening to the ever worsening scoreline in the America's Cup with a degree of disbelief, culminating in this morning's news that Oracle had successfully defended the Cup. We had had the feeling that all the premature speculation concerning "when the cup is back in NZ" and "champagne on ice" was tempting fate, but of course just how much that had to do with the final result will always be a matter of personal belief. Suffice it to say that Oracle did an absolutely fantastic job to come back from where they were.
We are still at Lovina Beach on Bali and will be leaving tomorrow morning. We went ashore again this morning and discovered a delightful boutique hotel owned and run by an expat Dutchman. The interior walls are completely lined with pebbles and shells and the whole place was quirky in an Indonesian way with trees in the bedrooms, etc!!!
The whole place has an air of dejection right now as some boats have already left and many of the waterfront shops are shuttered with the end of festivities for Sail Indonesia.
Getting the boat ready for sea this afternoon - probably will visit 2 anchorages on the way up to Karimunjawa approx. 400 miles distant.
We had become aware that perhaps some emails had not been getting through due to an inadvertant change to a Sailmail setting but if you haven't heard from us in a while you can always be re-regaled by visiting the website - tiaretaporo3.blogspot.com!!
That's it for now. We'll be in touch again probably from Karimunjawa.
Lots of love from us........
Jim and Jean
s.v. Tiare Taporo III
Lovina Beach
Bali.

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