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18/06/2009: "LINDBLAD EXPLORER VOYAGE 'BALI TO KOMODO ISLAND'"
We had an interesting voyage at greatly reduced rates. The Lindblad Explorer ran a couple of trips especially for Indo locals of Bali, and what a fun time we had. My coverage was in Sea Safari a 90 minute film made especially for video release.
It showed several giant Komodo dragons (a monitor lizard that grows to 4 meters) feeding on a slaughtered goat - a practice since stopped for the tourist industry in this national park.
The guest list included many Europeans, including this Italian lady who spoke little or no English.
Some years later the Lindblad Explorer struck an iceberg down south and sank in a much publicized media spectacle.
By then she had been re-named, something else with Explorer still attached to the name.
Proof (or just and example) of the old nautical belief that re-naming a ship brings it bad luck?
