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[status]We arrived at 6am yesterday to Nias Island. It was a slow but comfortable trip, for a total of 203NM in 48 hours. We had a very good and interesting day on Sunday after our arrival. We spent some time watching the surfers and then went ashore to fly the drone. In short, I ended up having my iPhone stolen on the beach. There were literally 50-75 kids around, and I accidentally left it near the drone bag. I went back to the boat, looked up the iPhone location using the Find my Phone feature, found it moving around the village. I went ashore, found some 'police' and told them what happened using Google Translate. There were amazed that I could see the phone moving almost in realtime on Sarah's phone. They called in other criminal police, and we were off in a police van chasing the moving dot, and making a big scene. I was not hopeful as it is very hard to find the phone amongst of bunch of kids. The police frisked some kids that were near the moving dot, and long story shot, it spooked the kid who stole it as he ditched the phone behind an outside 'toilet'. We found the location, and used the 'alarm' feature of the phone to hear it ring...and found it!!! We then took the police back to the beach, and bought them a round or two of beer as a thank you. This is primarily a protestant island, so having a beer was no issue and the were happy to have some free drink. We ended up having dinner with them last night and had a small 'dance' party with the kids. It turned out to be a blast, and memories for sure.
[weather] rainy, 25C, 1009.9 pressure, 5-7 kts NW, slight swell in anchorage.

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