On the recent presidential election day, Indonesian government decided make the day to be a public holiday. So, we got nothing to do at home and decided to take a short trip to Kodingareng Keke Island, it's only about 14km from Makassar. We then head down to sea port close to Gapura Hotel. We rent a boat for Rp. 550.000, and it could carry 10 persons.
Seaport
The boat
Leaving the seaport, going to Lae-Lae Island
to purchase gas for the boat engineeFollowing is our trip route plotted on Google Earth. I wrote simple application to do location logging on my Android G1. For some reasons, the island is not shown in the satellite photo.
Kodingareng Trip RouteOur stop at Lae-Lae is almost not viawable on the map. Lae-Lae is small island close to Makassar, it's only about 1.5km from Makassar. There are some people permanently live on the island.
Lae-Lae
Samalona Island (~ 7km from Makassar)
We almost arrived at Kodingareng Keke
Water is crystal clear with a lot of coral reef,
perfect for snorkeling or diving but probably not for swimming










Waves were getting bigger and it's time to go home
We need to go around the island in order to travel back to Makassar due to the big waves
Last picture I took before being hit by big waves (~ 1.5m),
my camera was wet, luckily it's weatherproof :)We arrived safely at Makassar, our trip back from Kodingareng was surely interesting, going through 1.5m tall waves.