To the Maldives by boat

I was on the bus for about four hours from coast to coast. When I reached the island Phuket I went off the bus by the first roundabout and ordered a taxi trough Grab. Which is something like Uber but in Thailand. The Grab took me to Ao Po Marina. I had to walk the last few hundred meters out in the marina. It was hot. The sun was bakin’.
 
It was all chill on the boat though. A nice air condition and really relaxed atmosphere. The crew are young people from different parts of the world. So this is where I am going to stay now together with about ten other people. It’s like I am meeting a new family. With these people I am going to live and work. I must say I really appreciated the soft bed and all the convieniences like that you get the meals cooked for you and your laundry done. And the fact that you are already at work when you wake up in the morning. Something completely different to the life and the everyday struggle in Mumbai. But all this is nothing new for me. Life is all about contrasts as it seem like. And it’s a constant travel.

We stayed there for another week before we set sails and traveled across the Indian ocean towards the Maldives. We were under way for five days. It was a nice voyage. The weather was lovely. I enjoy driving a boat. It’s been a while now. When we got there we were driving around to some of the most exclusive and luxurious resorts that costs money up to the sky. Amounts you don’t even want to think about. Private Islands and stuff. We saw some other boats that were doing kind of the same thing. One of them were owned by the vice president of Russia for example. A much bigger boat than ours of course. The guys I was working with spent most of the evenings fishing from the stern. Pulling up a few big fishes including a sting ray and even a shark around 2 meter long. We saw sea snakes in the water. They are pretty small but have the most powerful venom in the world. Its venom is a hundred times stronger then the venom from the deadliest snake in the world living on land. Which is the inland taipan that lives in Australia. The venom from a bite of that one is strong enough to kill a hundred people. Which means that the venom from a bite of the sea snake can kill a thousand people. It is not considered as the deadliest snake in the world since it rarely bites any human. It has so little teeth that it can hardly bite through the skill. Only on certain places of the human body.

Now is a perfect example of how I am working and traveling at the same time. Not much time for my own creative work. But at least I could write a little bit in the evening. When I was in Mumbai I was totally creative and into my book project. I was writing every single day. Now I wasn’t writing every day any more. But at least I was writing. So still doing something creative. I was practicing to write dialog. A long dialog over internet between a boy and a girl who desired each other since many year. Trying to get together. How he sacrificed all his energy and gave everything in order to try to be with her. I am still working on that one. The text, I mean.

Being here in Maldives is amazing. I really enjoy to drive this 46m yacht around in between the islands. It makes me feel like filming again. I wish I had a drone. I reckon I could have get some really nice airial footage from here over the boat and the islands and the resort. I think I need to get a drone to not miss out on opportunities like this in the future. I would have been able to do some more creative stuff if I had one of them. And that is kind of what I want.