Hi Everyone,
At daylight tomorrow we’ll be leaving Port Dixon for the 2 day passage to Lumut, the next official rally stop. We will anchor at night each day so there will be no night passages. We’ll stop at Klang the first night and Bernum the second. When we get to Lumut we will be anchoring off the Lumut International Yacht Club. The marina at Lumut tried to get ready for our arrival but couldn’t so no AC or TV. Oh well. Not sure about wifi though our cell phone modem works pretty well.
Yesterday we walked to the small Buddhist temple not far from the marina. It was something to do…. We went with Julia and Horst Wolff, cruisers from Paradise, CA who are also on the rally. Our plan was more to get the exercise and an early lunch than really anything else. I, however, did have an additional goal. While back in China in 2007, when Sallie and I went to the visit the Buddhist temple and ended up singing, “Take me out to the ball game,” with some very enthusiastic college students, I had also lit some incenses as good luck for the Red Sox. The Sox won the Series. Yesterday I lit some incense for the Sox…so here’s hoping it works again. The kind ladies at the temple had to help me because there is a ritual as to how you light the package of incense sticks and then you burn paper money at the end. I know the Sox have burnt lots of money at short stop lately so it was symbolic in many ways. We stopped at one of the small Indian restaurants on our way back to the marina and ate more wonderful tasting food. Then it was back to the boat to wait for the afternoon thunder storm.
The temple, just small like the one in Sai Kung where I lit incense for our safe cruising….
I put 3 really large incense sticks into the huge incense holder in the center of the photo. The rest of the small incense was divided into 4 groups and placed around the temple. The money burner was outside which was good because there was a lot of smoke involved.
I took two interesting sign photos while I was out walking the other day.
Interesting assumptions made in this sign.
- Residents would have only one bird, dog, or snake; but they would have two cats!
- Residents might actually have a snake as a pet.
You can rent a Segway at the marina. I think I would fall off and break my neck.
So that’s it. Everything is getting packed up and put away for our passage. Our water tanks are full as is our cruising diesel tank. The fuel gage on the diesel tank had gotten stuck showing more fuel than we really had so we arrived at Port Dixon on fumes. Randal fixed the gauge and pumped in fuel from one of the holding tanks. But now we write it all down anyway to keep check on the gauge. As for putting things away, mostly I just don’t take things out anymore, not unless we’ll be somewhere for a month!
Ru
DoraMac