These two guys were on their way back from the large local town to Palelah about 30 miles away and stopped for the night in the bay and came for a visit. How the hell they slept the night in the bottom of a dug out cane I don’t know but next morning at first light they were on their way while we were moving on as well. We were just starting to leave and the local head man came out all dressed up in his finery with an interpreter they had got specially from another village for a visit apparently it’s a very rare thing to have a cruising boat in the bay
We were very embarrassed that we had to go but explained we had a lot of miles to do that day to Manado. They had gone to a lot of effort and the head man looked a bit disappointed we were leaving so soon I think if we didn’t we would have been there for days . (due to Indonesian hospitality)