Day 133 Baluran, Java to Lovina, Bali

Heavy rain last night with some serious thunder & lightning continued this morning stopping our morning nature walk plans, but while sitting reading my book I looked up out at the water a saw the monitor lizard swimming past in the water. We booked a van back to the park entrance at 8am but with all the rain it took nearly 3hours to get here and it was a slow trip back out of the park the road was quite cut up, on the trip out we saw more monkeys, deer & pea foul. The bus to Banawangi took us from the entrance to 20mins down the road where we were forced to change in to a very overcrowded bus for the last 10mins to the Bali ferry. On the ferry nobody asked for payment so we had a free ride across to Bali a short distance but the tide was ripping through so all the boats struggled. The bus from there to Lovina on the North coast took 2 hours and Eliane stayed with us there where we found accommodation for 50,000IR each just 2minutes walk from the beach.
At dinner we had wifi for the first time in just under a week so had a bit of catching up to do & pass on belated wishes for a Happy NZ Mothers Day.