Things are moving faster now. We dropped into Langkawi for our final provisioning, you know, those important tins of beer and bottles of wine so necessary for toasting the sun going down over the Indian Ocean. We are now totally recovered teetotallers, a sever condition that hit us during our lengthy sojourn in Indonesia. We even managed a few bottles of whiskey and port! A bottle of reasonable whiskey here is the equivalent of US$4.50!
Oh yes, and we bought some food too! If truth be known, we didn't buy that much as the supermarkets in Langkawi are certainly not brilliant. We managed most prior to leaving Pangkor and then again up in Phuket. We're still very shy of all things fresh e.g. fruit and veggies as those we saw in Langkawi I'd feel guilty feeding to my pet pig if I had one, so we can only hope scurvy doesn't settle in during the four or five days it will take to get over to Sumatra. Somehow, I'm sure we'll survive.
We left the Kuah anchorage this morning to venture around the southwest side of the islands where there are apparently quite a few beautiful anchorages that we haven't investigated previously. It's still a little early for us to set off for Sumatra as we only wish to arrive on or about the 25th and it's less than 300nm. We'll be arriving back in Indonesia without a visa which only allows us 30 days including the day we arrive and the day we leave so we don't want to get there and use up unnecessary days before the Marine Festval starts on the 26th. After the festival, we have a fair distance to go to get down to Pedang to check out on our way to Cocos Keeling so every day is precious.
As I write, we've just dropped anchor in a gorgeous spot next to the Lake of the Pregnant Maiden (and no, I didn't make that up!). It's too hot to go off hiking to it now so we'll leave that for the cooler (yeah right) hours of the early morning. Any photos will have to wait for a later time, the Internet is so limited here, it's a "catch me if you can" situation so no chance of uploading photos.
The next time I write, we'll be back in Indonesia and starting our homeward bound journey.
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