We have now been in the marina 3 days. It is nice to stay in one place for a bit after moving steadily all the way up from Singapore. Will probably stay here until Dec 12 before moving on to Thailand. The last week has been about as hot as we have every had since leaving Canada.
Yesterday we rented an air conditioner from the boat yard here for 50rm a month (about$18.) and mounted it outside so that it blows in one of the ports into the cabin and I taped a piece of plastic around it. Works great, makes life on board more pleasant. We have been melting at night because there are a lot of mosquito's around at night and we need the bug screens in and the no-see-um netting blocks about 70% of the air flow.
This morning we took the free ferry over to Langkawi. Rebak is on a small island a mile off the West side of the much bigger island, Langkawi. There is nothing at the dock where ferry drops you, but we walked first to the airport about 20 minutes away and looked in the shops there and topped up my Celcom phone and had a Starbucks coffee. Then we walked up to a larger grocery store with veggies. It turned out to be a very good store with everything and it was another 20 minutes further past airport.
Rebak marina is a pleasant enough place to stay. We can use the hotel pool across the way and also a gym on this side is available. Considering it is a small island there is a fair amount of walking you can do, even found a steepish little trail through bush up a hill then down steeply to a beach we can do. This afternoon we were surprised to see huge clouds of white fog descending on us and then realized they were fogging the area to kill mosquitoes. Apparently no malaria on Langkawi. Have a small list of boat chores to do over the next two weeks between outings.
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