After a good breakfast, we headed down the beach to the InterContinental Resort, and found many offering baskets and little boats on the shore. Thanks to Helma we enjoyed a lovely day at the Intercontinental's wonderful pool and beach. There are at least 4 swimming areas, one of which is an infinity pool looking out to the sea with swim up bar, a second more secluded one with fountains of females pouring water (where we sat) and others with fish sprouting water etc. The staff come around with complimentary fresh fruit kababs. We had our lunch at Jimbaran Beach Club, and used the wifi there to plan for our next destination on Bali - a snorkling area called Amed on the east side of the island.
After lunch we rented SUBs (stand up boards) from the Intercontinental. Good thing they agreed that we could pay for an hour ($12) and each have a board for 30 minutes, since in that 30 minutes we had fallen, swallowed and inhaled so much salt water that we had had enough. Plus we were exhausted just climbing back on the board and standing up, balancing and then paddling till another small wave came and sent us tumbling.
Around 5 pm we walked back down the beach to our hotel. All the Balinese are on the beach playing soccer, collecting those little clams, swimming so the place is lively. Today there was a team of oxen pulling a plow device to clean the beach.
We went to dinner with Helma at Balique, which was a mixture of Balinese and French. Very good, but the wines were a little expensive!
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