And I'm down to only two courses at dinner! Hoppy never looses his appetite of course, but has been known to miss dessert on occassion.
Langkawe - 98 islands at high tide and 108 at low tide - but only three inhabited; total population 140000. Very developed for such a low number of residents but tourism has boomed since KL granted it duty free status in 1987 and now they enjoy 50.000 tourists a year.Well we were to do the river cruise and see bats in their caves, crocodile cave - no crocodiles now - a fish farm and sea eagles. We arrived at Kilim jetty, had to get of the bus and walk about 500 yards donned in the glamorous and only vaguely waterproof ponchos, in which time we were mostly dry but shoes squelched within the first few footsteps. We waited around, under cover thankfully, on the jetty. Just when you thought the rain couldn't get any heavier it did! Torrential - well it is the tropics. One boat load went off with the locals advising not to go. Half an hour went by, interesting seeing the local people. By the way the obesity "epidemic" is in evidence even way out here. Then our trip was cancelled and we went shopping instead!!!! We went to the town Mall - interesting but shopping????????? We had a coffee eventually since we couldn;t get back on the bus and have a sleep. Then off for a chinese smorgesboard lunch. I tasted most things but left a lot - I'm just not hungry. We then went backfor a shortened version of the boat trip - got to see the fish farm - at least these ones were fed real fish not meal as the ones in the Mekong in Vietnam - but huge groper and trevally kept in nets about 3m x 2m! Lucky me - I got to hold a horshoe crab - this one only side plate sized, not dinner plate size like the big ones, apparently not at all agressive despite the scary 10inch long tail/spike! We saw heaps of sea eagles and had a lovely blow out on the river. Lots of yachts anchored around the river. A much cheaper option than marina fees at the main harbour.
We're into our second sea day of four on our way to Mumbai on 7th and our exciting crosscountry trip to the Taj and more........
Hoppy's developed a ghastly cough but insists he's OK otherwise. I dosed up on bombers yesterday but today am fine. Yeah! We are heading into 3.5 metre waves - better than side on - cant use the flippers (stablisers) and its very windy, but lovely warm winds - delicious. I see we're just crossing the bottom of Sri Lanka. Amazing!!!
Lots of love to you all. We're happy as but missing you all....love from US.
Yuk, blerk seasick....keep an eye on that cough Hoppy...you don't want to need to be hospitalised in India!! XX
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