We moved out of the town anchorage of Kuah yesterday and headed around to Rebak Island Resort Marina to fill up with water and take a look at the haul out facilities. We haven't socialized with other cruisers for over three months so we were really happy to hear that they were holding an Australia day BBQ (also coinciding with Chinese New year which is huge here) underneath a catamaran in the hard stand area. We wandered up with a couple of drinks and met a big group of cruisers all hanging around this area for the next year or have been here for the last season. Lots of great information was passed around which has helped us make our final decision to spend an extra season here in Asia.
It's been a really tough choice to make as we wont be seeing many of our long time cruising friends again (now currently in Sri Lanka) and we'll be adding an extra year to our circumnavigation. On the good side though we'll be able to relax with no big passages and enjoy some of the most beautiful cruising grounds in the world. Around May time we'll haul the boat for a few months during the wet season and make a trip home to visit family and friends and hopefully build up the kitty a little at the same time. It's been over three years since I've been back to England and over two for Jimmy so we're really looking forward to having a taste of the old life for a while even if it is just to see how good we have it out here!
Tomorrow we plan to make a trip back down to Penang island, roughly sixty miles, to apply for a Thai visa which will give us three month cruising instead of the usual one month we'd get without it. Then we'll head back up here to re-stock before crossing over to Thailand.
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