We anchored overnight at a lovely island called Daya Bunting where we took the dinghy ashore for a swim in the Maiden’s lake, a large fresh water lake inside the island.

Jaime and Carmen from Bionic and Hans and Monica from Natibou joined us for sundowners.

During the night the wind picked up in the anchorage to over 30 knots and it blew down on us from the top of the hills pushing us sideways to our anchor.

Mark checked things every hour and we both got up at 4.30am to make sure all the cushions etc were secured. Around half an hour later Mark got up again to find that we had dragged anchor for over ¾ mile – so it was all hands on deck !

We motored back into the anchorage, had breakfast and were glad to move on to another anchorage, with better holding, close to the Royal Langkawi Yacht Club and the town of Kuah.

We stocked up with our Christmas duty frees in the town that day and then met up with Susan & David from Enchantress and Maria and Steve from Aspen in the evening for a nice meal at ‘Charlies’ in the Royal Langkawi Yacht Club Marina where they were both berthed.