http://www.chasamba.com The Chasamba Weblog Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:48:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Jeepney, kind of a local bus. A typical shop on the outskirts of Puerto. Oren and Sheva walking past a tricycle ( 100 pesos to be driven where you want for an hour!) A pork butcher in the market- in the front you can see the lower leg with trotters, used for ... http://www.chasamba.com/212/a-few-pictures-of-puerto-princesa.html A typical outrigger, Puerto Princesa harbour. A HUGE barracuda! A native village, Clarendon Bay, Balabac A duty free beer in Labuan harbour. A great big tree trunk, lots like this float by the Borneo shore. Filleting a Spanish mackerel. http://www.chasamba.com/209/some-photos.html Yes, we are safely anchored in the well sheltered natural harbour of Puerto Princesa, outside the Albanico Yacht Club, surrounded by the big jungle covered mountains which are part of the central range which form the backbone of Palawan. This is a nice, sleepy little place run by a British ... http://www.chasamba.com/207/palawan-after-36-days-sailing.html This will be the last update from Singapore, we are checked out and tomorrow morning we will be on our way to Borneo. The weather isn't ideal, not much wind forecast and no real sign of the south west monsoon arriving, but we are fed up of the heat and ... http://www.chasamba.com/198/singapore-and-onwards.html Eventually we had to tear ourselves away from the wonderful islands of Thailand's west coast, and after a few days snorkeling in the nature reserve at Ko Rok we set sail south. The Butangs were a bit disappointing, as we had heard that the visibility is usually very good in ... http://www.chasamba.com/194/malacca-straits-to-singapore.html    We have been anchored off the little bay on the western side of Ko Muk for the last few days, and have had a great time. The snorkelling and fishing is some of the best we have experienced, and we have been living off squid, sometimes three meals a day! ... http://www.chasamba.com/192/ko-muk.html It's the last day of a good year, one in which we did all we hoped we would and experienced nearly only good experiences. After the difficulties of 2008, this year showed us the way life looks with the wind on the aft quarter! We have enjoyed every country we ... http://www.chasamba.com/190/2009-from-cochin-to-phuket.html [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="640" caption="victory v!"][/caption] People sometimes ask us whether we get bored not having anything to do. This just shows that many people do not have experience in trying to keep a sail boat working. It seems to me that we work much harder than we ever did, and ... http://www.chasamba.com/187/angkor-wat-and-alternators.html We have just heard that friends of ours, Rachel and Paul Chandler, have been captured by pirates just out of the Seychelles. We met Rachel and Paul  in Cochin, and had good times there together. Afterwards we were supposed to meet again in Chagos, but due to family obligations they ... http://www.chasamba.com/185/lynn-rival-pirate-attack.html http://www.chasamba.com/180/pictures-of-inbal-in-thailand.html