How to reach Bawean island?
Potential aspects of Bawean island, district of Gresik , that is wonderful prospect for tourism to develop properly so far. Instead, it is completed with an enough accession to reach the island, transportation both sea and aircraft charter are ready to operate. Circle street that around the island stretching about 58 km is ready to go on the street with you, meanwhile there is other alternative way instead, there is very helpful. Any speed ship that only needs 3 hour from Gresik to the island, but only twice a week; Wednesday and Saturday. Kapal Motor Cepat Express Bahari 8B with the capacity of 359 passengers sails from Gresik to Bawean on the distance of 80 mills. It departs everyday from Gresik at 09.00 am and backs from Bawean at 09.00 am in each scheduled days. Besides above speed ship, there are also; KM Merak, KM Tri Stars, KM Dharma Kartika that takes only $13,00.
Besides, we can operate the charter flight from Surabaya or from Jakarta, the local governance take a high appreciation to accelerate the finishing of the new representative airport in this island.
Geographically
Administratively, Bawean island is included to Gresik district, East Java. It is located on the North of Gresik district and it is about 80 mills or 156 km. The width of Bawean is 194, 11 km square consisting two sub districs; Tambak and Sangka Pura. It is rounded by some small islands at the East; Gili, Noko, Selayar and Telur and Batu Kerbau, Karang Bilah, Tanjug Cina and Nusa islands at the West. It is only Gili island that is populated with 700 people from the others.
The island of Bawean is the remains of an old volcano; it is roughly circular in shape with an average diameter of about 15 km and an area of about 20,000 ha. The oldest, outermost crater is no longer easily distinguishable, but a more recent crater containing the lake Telaga Kastoba is readily identifiable. This lake is about 600m long and 400m wide, and has a maximum depth of 140m. There are many streams and also hot springs in limestone areas at four different elevations on the island. In coastal areas, the soils consist of alluvial river deposits of grey clay; these are used for the cultivation of rice. There are many small patches of mangrove swamp around the coast. Most of the human population is concentrated near the coast and on the south side of the island.
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