The First Season 3 Good-Bye - Galang Island, Indonesia
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Fri 19 Nov 2010 05:39
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It's been a while, hasn't it? The blog was supposed
to be brought up to date in Singapore before our guests Bryan and
Michele arrived there on October 30th, but, well, it didn't
happen. Now it's 19 days later and we are 500 miles north of
Singapore, off the coast of Langkawi Island in Malaysia, just south of the
Thailand border. Our guests have left us, the boat feels empty, and we've
got a month to meander around the 99 small islands in the Langkawi
area before we pack up the boat and head home for Christmas. Looks
like it's time to seriously get the blog caught up before Season
3 officially ends. So, here we go...
Galang Island was our next-to-last stop in Indonesia before
making the mad dash across the Singapore Strait to Raffles Marina in
Singapore. Our stop at Galang on October 17 was peaceful and
uneventful after an 8 1/2 hour, hot and sweaty motorsail (still no wind,
even here in the northern hemisphere) covering the 60 miles from
Kentar Island. Peaceful and uneventful if you don't count the long-winded
happy hour we hosted for Fiona and Claire, the crew of English boat
Sa'Vahn. It was our last chance to see them before they cruised fast up
the coast of Malaysia to Langkawi where they hauled their boat and flew
home to London to work for a year (they are much younger than most boaters, and
still have to occasionally scoot home and work in order to sustain their
cruising lifestyle). We were still recovering from Storyteller's equator
party the night before, but when we pulled into the anchorage at Galang Island
and saw Sa'Vahn sitting there, we knew we couldn't pass up the chance for a last
good-bye (the first of many as the end of Season 3 looms ahead). Lucky for
us, we'll see them again when they return in a year's time since we plan
to hang around the Malaysia/Thailand area for at least that
long.
 Indonesian fisherman preparing for a night of fishing off the
coast of Galang Island.
 Our view of what looks like an Indonesian fish
farm as seen from our Galang Island anchorage.
Anne
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