If there's ever been a place where you wouldn't want to eat at home this has to be it! With a great mix of Indian and Chinese cultures the selection of restaurants is fantastic and ridiculously cheap. We're in Georgetown, the main city of Penang Island, and snuggly tied up to the docks at Tanjong city Marina. We're here to pick up our Thai visas which will allow us a three month stay instead of the regular one month we'd receive on arrival. The city is like an older version of Singapore, without all the high rise buildings, and so still has all beautiful old historical buildings and alleyways packed with little shops and restaurants which come alive at night.
Yesterday was an exciting day on Blue Moon after we came to the conclusion that we must have something wrapped around our propeller and shaft as the boat wasn't handling right in reverse gear as we came into the dock. Unfortunately the water here is like mud with zero visibility, strong undercurrents from the ferries, extremely smelly and has big jelly fish swimming around (no one could tell us if they were poisonous or not)....not a tempting place to go for a dip!!
But like any good boat owner Jimmy donned his dive gear and slipped off the dock into the murky depths to feel his way to the prop (I have to admit there is no way you could have ever gotten me in there). So as he bravely disappeared with just his bubbles showing that all was still okay, I stood on the dock with the fishing gaff trying to divert any wandering Jelly fish who looked like they were floating his way. After ten minutes he surfaced with a handful of fishing net and floats that had melted themselves to the shaft! It took an hour of blindless cutting with a kitchen knife and pair of pliers to finally remove the tangle of plastic netting, with his dive tank running out of air just seconds after the last piece was cut free Jimmy was feeling very lucky!
With that drama over we hit the town for a great $6 celebratory feast of Chicken Masala, fried rice and Naan Bread...Delicious especially washed down with a mango Lassi (yogurt drink)!...no beers available at the muslim restaurants I'm afraid. Today we plan to find the Tesco supermarket, on the very confusing bus system, to restock with some products we won't find anywhere else and then back to town to discover another great place to eat...chinese today I think!!
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