Friday 23rd May
It is beautiful
here in our sandy anchorage surrounded by large coral bommies.
Six of the other
rally boats have arrived so we are forming a small village-on-the-sea.
I have spent a
large percentage of my time in the warm, clear water and am very pleased to
report that Pete joined me for a very long swim before lunch. He enjoyed it very much and did NOT, for
once, suffer from cramp, sunburn, flooding mask. Nor did he get bitten by the mysterious
creatures which usually sting him as soon as he steps into the sea. A big win!
The coral here is
spectacular – hundreds of large bommies.
Some of them are almost fluorescent, blue and white. Others are large and spread out for many
metres, in pleasing shades of dusky pink.
And this, of course, is the moment for my underwater camera to say…NO! I have put it back in the basket to have a
good hard think and I hope it has a better answer next time I get into the water!
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| Photo of the bommies from...2XS... |
Some of the boats
which ere expected to be in the rally have suffered misfortune. An English yacht was struck by lightning in
Danga Bay.* This wiped out most of the
electronic on the boat and so far the insurance bill has been over $30,000…
* This was the
first marina we went to in Malaysia, in Johor Baru. It was a nice marina in that the people were
very friendly and helpful but…the water is filthy, with , or so I have heard,
the occasional corpse floating by. There
are MANY mosquitoes; there are only two shower for all of the yachties to
share, and…there is no beautiful cool pool, or Happy Hour Beach Bar! So if one were to be struck by lightning and
stuck in a marina – how much nicer if it were on Rebak Island…
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