Season Four Ends
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Wed 15 Jun 2011 23:00
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June 16, 2011
That about wraps up Season Four. Slightly wimpy in that
we didn't travel by boat very far, but we did see a fair bit of Southeast Asia,
and above all else, managed to keep from completely melting
in the heat and humidity.
~350 miles sailed (mostly motored)
5 months
2 countries (Malaysia and Thailand)
21 anchorages
3 marinas
4 land trips (2 in Thailand, 1 to Vietnam
and 1 to Penang, Malaysia)
As a result of our travels this season, we have a new
appreciation for the chili pepper, karst limestone formations, Buddhism,
sidewalk living and rice farming on the sides of muddy mountains (not to
mention life in a communist nation struggling to catch up with the rest of the
world).
Season Five promises to bring all manner of excitement as we
move back into ocean crossing mode. When compared to the Pacific and the
southern Atlantic, the Indian Ocean is said to be 'boisterous' and 'bumpy' - so
we'll have that to look forward to. Our current plan is to fly back to
Malaysia in mid-October complete final maintenance and provisioning in Langkawi,
then sail north to Phuket in November. We'll stay in Thailand
until the northeast monsoon arrives, which should be around mid-January.
From Thailand, we may visit India's Andaman Islands and/or Sri Lanka, then the
Maldives, Chagos, Mauritius and Reunion, for a total of ~4,000 sailing
miles. We hope to arrive in Reunion in June of 2012, where we will leave
the boat for a few months to wait for southern hemisphere spring to
arrive before making the final 1,500 run to South Africa's east coast in October
or November of 2012....but I'm getting ahead of myself here....the final run to
South Africa will take place at the beginning of Season Six for us.
Besides, as we've proven in the past, longer term plans are nothing but the
basis for change - so you never know what we might decide to do by
then.
The blog will be back in late October / early November for the
start of Season Five.
We hope to see you all this summer!
Anne
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