This, to me, is unadulterated Indonesia. Spectacular, often accidental beauty, a wave of a hand from a passing scooter, and a “good morning sirrrrr”. (It is 5pm). Gawd I love this place. /thread

This is our last night, five nights in west Bali, about 15 km shy of Gilimanuk. The house website is here: https://www.baliecobeachhouse.com/  It is more Airbnb than a resort, a nice spot, but, like Airbnb places, full of things you’d do different if it was yours.

They said the beach was a “working beach” and I’ve written at length about the clean up required here: https://twitter.com/travelfish/status/1380646641133252608?s=20 so I won’t rehash it here.

But there is this special beauty to the west, and for a bizarre reason, walking the beach this afternoon, it brought Twitter to mind. It’s a shallow run off with a 10 metre stretch between low and high tide. High tide brings the garbage. Like Twitter.

But low tide, when the grey sands are sucked bare, there’s this amazing beauty to it. At first glance, it is pretty but vacant, in a desolate kind of a way...you don’t really know where to walk. Like Twitter.

But when you look closer, there’s some gorgeous shiny shells amongst the trash you want to pick up and keep in your pocket forever. Just like Twitter. Who hasn’t found a few?

Then people pass you by, a wave and a smile and a bellowed hello, and you kinda wish they slowed down and you got to know them... like Twitter.

Then you keep walking and meet a fisherman, what are you doing? I’m fishing! With a smile. Then he shows you his catch and tells you how to fish, even tho he had none! Fishsplaining, just like Twitter!

Keep walking and the crabs lay out patterns—we’re all connected. Like Twitter.

I dunno, it has been such valuable downtime, and walking the beach this afternoon, the tide and the rubbish and the love somehow made me thing about how Twitter works. Worst case you can just burn it down—just like Twitter. We’ve done so each night.

Thanks to @sagabrown for picking the place for some downtime. Has been, well, great, moody, wonderful thinking time.

And as much as I’ve rambled on about Twitter, my real point, is this is why **Indonesia rocks**. For all the cons, the pros always come out on top—even if it takes three days to clean a piece of sand!

One more, as he just rode by me as I finished the thread.