About 3AM
this morning we left our berth in Port Kelang and proceeded down river to the Malacca
Strait where we sat at anchor waiting for the fuel boat to meet us.
The boat was
coming from Singapore and arrived sometime between 10-11 AM this morning. The fueling process will take all day and
hopefully we’ll be on our way towards Fremantle later this evening. Several of the ship’s staff said that this is
the first time they’ve ever seen a cruise ship being fueled while at sea. This was the view outside of the deck 2 game
room this afternoon. You can see the guys
sitting there monitoring the delivery. Fred
and I played a game of scrabble as we watched the ship. (I won)
It’s hot and
humid as we stand still here in the strait.
Around us are dozens of other ships at anchor. The Captain told us some were waiting on
berths while others were waiting on orders from their owners. The owners will direct them to the port
willing to pay the best price for whatever they have on board. That was interesting, I didn’t know ships did
that.
On my way to
get pictures of the fueling ship, I stopped and got a photo of our hallway on
deck 5 of the QMII. That’s our room to
the right…and we’re in the middle of the ship so that gives you an idea of the
length of this particular liner. Although
the QM2 is bigger in tonnage and length then a lot of other ships, it doesn’t
hold as many people. It was purpose
built to cross the Atlantic and is in fact the only ship that can be called an ‘ocean
liner’ currently in use. It does a great
job in rough seas as we saw during the transatlantic crossing when we were in
the middle of that blizzard. Boy does
that seem like a long time ago!
Well
hopefully our next few days at sea will be uneventful for a change. We are scheduled to be in Fremantle Australia
on the 18th and will stay there overnight. We’re looking forward to being off the
ship! We plan to take the train into
Perth the first day and have a look around, it’ll be good to be on solid ground
again.
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