Gili Island

Here are a few more facts about the Gili Islands:

 - they got their first ATM machine recently.

 - there are no police on the islands.  The island tribal Chief handles all disputes.

 - cats are a huge problem.  They are everywhere; you can see at least 3-4 at any given place on the island.  They are not right, all of them have half tails with nubs at the end.  Yesterday, one sat on my table for lunch.  I couldn't get it to move without throwing it off, and no one else seemed to mind.  At dinner, I looked down to see a cat with a huge goiter growing out of its cheek and a mangled paw. Not exactly what you want to see when eating a fish kebob.  When I was told the cat was gone, I put my feet back down on the floor, only to rub against the diseased creature.  After that I kept my feet up, and to the amusement of my friend, girly-shrieked each time the tablecloth blew into my leg.  It was embarrassing.

I went diving today and it was great.  We went to shark point, and we saw a small black tip reef shark.  We also saw nemo and a giant turtle gnawing on what was left of the almost dead coral.