The last few days we spent in the Anambas Islands, the land of gigantic rocks. Lukie and I played all over a deserted island, we explored caves and were nearly crushed by massive rocks.
In this picture, we are standing under a rock. How is it balancing? This rock is a quarterh of another bigger rock (which is too far right of the picture to show) which was split in half and then half again.
Uh oh, we are in trouble! We could only just hold it up. This side of the island is very steep. Lukie and I played at the bottom of the cliffside constantly worrying whether the heavy granite rocks would collapse onto us.
Another teetering rock. We were on our way to jump from the tall rock on the left into the ocean when the unstable rock started wobbling. We had to hurry because the balancing boulder was about to fall!
Lukie climbing into a cave we explored. We pretended a giant sandworm lived in the cave and we were explorers who needed to kill it. We searched all over but never found the worm.
Lukie and his crazy gymnastics. The cave was made of hundreds of rocks, some of which were jammed in big crevasses.
A close-up of Lukie’s petrified face. (He never got down, we left him for the worm.)
I’m gonna die! It’s a dangerous sport, rock hanging.
In places, the only way up the rocks was horizontal. Here Lukie and I are pushing apart the crevasse with our bare hands.
The jump rock! Lukie is doing his karate chop jump.
Me doing my sitting Yoda jump.
The triple-Mexican-wave-three-people-awesome-amazing-really-tall-pure- granite-rock-super-jump.
Here is the lizard from the first picture.
The island is basically made of rocks. It is brilliant. My Dad thinks that the place used to be a big mountain and it degraded over time, but I think differently. I think a giant came along and threw boulders everywhere. The lizard above is probably a petrified dragon.
SV Bob The Cat 