2025 Heritage Expedition Cruising

Komodo Island and Pink Beach, Indonesia Day 6

Thursday 2nd October 2025

We arrived at Komodo Island, home to Komodo Dragons, huge beasts capable of taking down Buffalo.

Hopes were high, though we all know nature is nature and nothing is certain, but it all came together and as we landed on the beach, a MASSIVE Komodo Dragon sat waiting on the beach to welcome us to their island. As we explored this island our guides never let our minds stray too far, with birds and deer moving through the understory and a great find of a Komodo Dragon’s nest. With mating season just completed, we wondered if, in a few months’ time, small dragons would erupt from right where we were standing.

As amazing as it was, it was hot, and so then there would be nothing better than a swim and snorkel at the famous Pink Beach. The marine life here was incredible! Large numbers of schooling Fusiliers and Indian Mackerel feasted all afternoon in the prevailing current on the surface of the water. Down deeper, large predatory Trevally and Snappers moved calmly through schools of small fish.