27 July 2009 - farewell Padang, thank you to Eddie & Martin for looking after us so well, you can see the offices of Indies Trader here on the left, this is where Eddie organised three drivers to take us to the Customs Office to get our exit visa, we had been waiting 4 days for this moment, so it was a releif to finally be allowed to leave Indonesia, only because they had our Passports for the past 4 days - bit scarey. Unfortunately Flip's passport hadnt been returned yet, so it was bye byes to our skipper and hello to Phuket hopefully!












8 August 2009 - Karon Beach, Thailand............ Oh my word, just when we thought it was safe to pole dance in the bars, we run into Kate from Port Douglas (her Mum & Dad are Deliah and Frank who were on the yacht "Parmelia" when we lived on our yacht "Hiouchi") - wow - the world is certainly getting smaller as I get older !!!!!