Category Archives: Cruising Life

Describes an experience regarding the boating lifestyle of our travel.

Singapore Night Safari Park

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Several people told us to go to Singapore’s Zoo and Night Safari Park since they are some of the best zoos in the world. But, we are from San Diego, which also has a top zoo, so the regular zoo didn’t excite us too much. But the night safari park sounded interesting, though. All the animals are nocturnal and you can see them when they are up and active. We did chores during the day. One of the chores was laundry. While we have a small washer on board, sometimes it is nice to use the bigger machines in the marina so the laundry gets done quicker. Christi had Continue reading →

Site Clarifications

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Hello blog readers. We made a comment on Welcome to Singapore.

And a few reminders: It may appear we have a constant Internet connection, but we do not. We write a batch of blog stories. When possible we go ashore and seek out a fast Internet connection. We load all the stories. We then have the stories time release each weekday, thus the blog posts are not in real time. We rarely can post comments due to lack of Internet connection. Also see About the Blog.

All is well, there are more interesting stories coming! Keep reading. 🙂

Scary Singapore Shipping

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For the timing of our entry to Singapore to work out ideally, we needed to cross the main shipping lane at sunrise. It was going to take all day to get to Singapore Harbor, and we wanted to enter the harbor in the day.

Sea conditions had improved slightly by dawn, but conditions were still really miserable. Thanks to slow speeds from adverse wind and currents, we were still miles and miles from the shipping lane. Singapore is a small island just south of the coast of Malaysia. The continental land mass blocks a lot of the wind, so as we got closer and closer to our destination, the waves gradually got smaller, which we were grateful for.

The shipping lane keep traffic separated as it funnels into the port. We could see ships in the lanes ahead hours before we actually reached them. From the distance, it looked like a road on the water, with a consistent flow of huge ships going back and forth in an orderly fashion. The ships were Continue reading →

Days 2-3 from Karimata, Days 11-12 to Singapore

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Today we hit another huge milestone. We crossed the equator at 11:46 am and are now back in the northern hemisphere. Last time we crossed the equator we skipped the silly ceremonies and celebrated with champagne. This time there was no celebration at all. It was just too rough and we weren’t feeling festive. We simply counted down and then went back to what we were doing once the big moment had passed. Some shellbacks we are.

Sea conditions are Continue reading →