Singapore

We are moored in the  classy Raffles Marina in Singapore.  Like a 5-star hotel.  Swimming pool (with towels supplied), and a water bar.  Various restaurants looking out over the water,  a games room,  nursery, and central atruim with plants and fountains.  A  free shuttle bus takes you to a shopping centre and railway station from where it is an easy journey into the centre.

Not only was this the first flushing toilet since Darwin, but an automatic flush at that!

So we are enjoying a bit of comfort though it is extremely hot and muggy and it poured with rain last night.

The trip across the shipping lanes was not too fraught.  No use looking at all the ships on AIS, far too nerve wracking.  Just have to look at the ones closest an decide whether to detour round their stern or speed through in front.  Of course the sky darkened as we crossed, and it started raining so visibility was just about nil.  Luckily it din’t last long, and we had mentally worked out our plan so just went on blindly – a bit hairy though.

Once across we had to go round the west side of Singapore Island where a lot of reclamation is in progress.  Literally hundreds of ships at anchor from all over the world.