Pulau Silingaan

Tiger Balm on Tour
Gordon Millar & Colette Mullins
Sat 16 Apr 2011 07:43
N06:10.235 E118:03.556
 
Short 4.5 hour sail to this little island on the edge of the turtle islands and just outside the marine sanctuary.  Apropriately named as we saw 4 turtles on or near the surface as we anchored = see below.  Anchoring was eventful - another of those 50 feet to 5 feet water depth in less than a boat length - fotunately the depth sounder had given us a bit of a warning as had the (innacurate) chart!  We were pretty slow and a burst of reverse stopped us, but not before we had grounded a flopper stopper on the bottom.  Scary few moments as we raised it on the winch, as the boat was trying to pivot around it into even shallower water - we got down to 2.5 ft below the keel - nice!!!