August 12th we will HOPEFULLY be in Sulawesi, Indonesia. We are taking part in Sail Bunaken. A seven day festival in Menado/Bitung on the NE tip of Sulawesi. Checkout http://www.sailbunaken2009.com/
We are currently in Kota Kinabalu enjoying the very luxurious Sutera Harbour Marina. Australia could learn a thing or two about how to run a marina from these guys. It is fabulous and all for 49rm bout A$17.
Included in this fee are three swimming pools to choose from, one is Olympic size, gymnasium, squash courts, tennis, table tennis, kids club, pilates, marble washrooms with complimentary towels, body wash, shampoo, moisturizer; free wifi, security day & night and free shuttle into town on the hour. It is the best!
There are two other kid boats here and Natasha has found some Australian holiday makers with a girl the same age and is having a ball. James is keeping up but only just!
We have lots of ground to cover to get to Indonesia and then internet will get harder. Amanda will be able to relay our messages when it gets difficult. We have another big leg of overnight sailing between Borneo and Sulawesi around the 6th August so would love to have texts on the iridiumhttp://messaging.iridium.com/
our number is 881631429195
don't forget your email address so we know who the text is from!
We have thoroughly enjoyed Sarawak & Sabah and still have lots of Sabah to see. The downside of Borneo for us....is the spinnaker has died, ripped across the middle and nowhere here to repair it. (Sorry Ken)! Solar strip died on current sails (tropical sunshine is the pits!) so a canvas guy here in KK(Kota Kinabalu) is fixing that up. Was hit by a corker of a squall lasting 5hours that took the 0.5m sea and 5-10knots of breeze to 3m and 25+ in seconds. Skies were blue with white puffy clouds. You couldn't tell what was about to hit. Sailed 75nm that day! Unusual in this are to sail so much. Have seen a waterspout about 2nm away from us and moving in our direction! We could see the sea being whipped up on the surface. Radical changes in course saw it eventually move away and dissipate. Too close... They say that Borneo has the most lightning strikes in Asia! Hopefully the weather will be kind to us as we move steadily east. Australia gets closer every day!
At some point I will put a selection of photos on the blog so check outhttp://bluemoonofoz.blogspot.com/
occasionally!
Sarah
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If we can scrape together the funds Cait & I may be Singapore way in December. Cait is performing at the Esplanade Concert Hall as part of AVAE who will be performing with the Orchestra of the Music Makers and at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. Big ifs still but fundraising will bring her costs down astronomically. I guess if you're heading home to Oz you'll just about be here before we head over.
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