Consequences & live aboard life! Mistakes will happen, so how do we learn from them? Will discomfort help us not repeated our mistakes?
Sailing from Langkawi to Ao Chalong in Phuket was our first experience sailing into Thailand waters and clearing customs and immigration at Ao Chalong. Once there, we had to get into our chores… i.e. find a supermarket, laundry, scooter hire, fuel and an engineer! But first we get to explore some of the beautiful Thai islands…
Clearing in and out of customs, pirates, transport, phone and internet, cheap food, shopping, fruit and veg, fuel, hardware, bartering, trading and gifts, as well as some basic Indonesian words to know are covered in this post. It also includes a link to a google map of the anchorages we used which includes information about the holding and the depth of water.
Surrounded by beautiful green islands; mountainous with sheer rock faces plunging into blue water, we had finally reached Langkawi and the surrounding islands. We anchored at Pulau Singa Besar for the night and, not realising what little gem was hidden beneath the trees, we moved on the next day for Kuah.
Washing day. Even living on a boat we still have chores to do. Washing is made easier with my Companion Easywash Single Tub.
Penang’s streets weave, often oneway, through the eclectic array of new and old buildings, giving Penang a chaotic but charming feel. Beaches, resorts, markets and malls; this place has everything.
…and as we enjoyed a delicious nyonya laksa we watched a family of hornbills. The staff at the Nipah Deli put out some fruit for the hornbills that live in a tree nearby. The hornbill ma and pa cautiously made there way to the table, and the plate of fruit, where they filled their bellies before going back to feed their two chicks.
After leaving Senibong Cove Marina we stopped at the Sebana Cove Marina for a few days. Sebana Cove was in the middle of nowhere but it was a nice break just lazing around the pool. We walked through a oil palm plantation and watched the monkeys and I got to see my first ever hornbill in the wild!!.. Malacca is a very interesting place, with many souvenir shops and art galleries… at night as it is lit up with hundreds of lights. There are many restaurants and bars along the river…
While we were berthed in the Senibong Cove Marina, Malaysia, we chose to go to Singapore for a couple of nights as it is a short, and cheap, bus ride across the border. Having said that it did take us nearly three hours of travel before we were in our hotel room. We arrived late in the day and by that time Dwayne was hot and bothered and very close to packing a tantrum…. so I got him a nice cold beer and let him relax for a while before we went out to check out our surroundings…
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