Buster's been his bad little self. Once Phil and I returned to Basanti and Buster over at Nongsa Point (Indonesia) we prepared the boat and ourselves, officially cleared out of the country, and departed the lovely marina. We departed early on a Wednesday morning as we had about 50 miles to cover, including crossing the Singapore Straits...one of the the busiest shipping channels in the world. There is a constant stream of ships (2 lanes in each direction) moving east and west through the Straits and we were a little intimidated. However, plenty of yachties cross it, so it can't be too bad.
We headed west along the Indonesian side of the straits until there seemed to be a gap from the west and nothing from the east. All in all it was a little bit of an anticlimax, but we're glad for that. Once we were on the Singapore side, it was pretty busy, but even then it wasn't too bad. We motored around Singapore to the west and then up the Johor Straits, under a bridge in heavy rain with little visibility and then on up to Danga Bay Marina in Johor Bahru. Here we are for a week or so getting a few parts and things not available in Indonesia.
Best thing so far about Malaysia has to be the food!! We are all loving the varieties and eating too much...Indian, Malay, Chinese, Japanese...it is all here. Yum. The weather is hot of course and just about every afternoon we get a rain...a heavy downpour, but that cools things off a bit.
This poor computer...while in Singapore we took it to a fixer for a variety of reasons and the analysis was that the hard drive was really corrupted, so the fellow had to re-format the hard drive. We saved a bunch of the files and things, but after the re-formatting, all the programs and things had to be re-installed and whatever. Hopefully we are all good to go again with fewer technical issues. Buster will have to sort through some photos and post something soon.
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