Depart early this morning from Sanur, south Bali, and take a pleasant ride through a largely unknown area of Bali (approx. 2 hours) to where the Katharina is anchored off the village of Amed in north-east Bali. After boarding and settling in on the vessel, set sail across the Lombok Strait. This stretch of water between Bali and Lombok marks an important ecological boundary, first described by Sir Alfred Russel Wallace, the 19th century British naturalist and contemporary of Charles Darwin who independently proposed his own theory of evolution due to natural selection. He noticed that flora and fauna of the islands west of this boundary are home to Asiatic animal and plant species, whereas the islands east of that “line” have a greater similarity to species found in Australia. In the afternoon, make your first stop at the small island of Gili Trawangan, off the west coast of Lombok, for a couple of hours of swimming, snorkeling and beach-combing. Later, head out on a north-easterly course for the overnight passage to east-Lombok.