At anchor just outside of Kota Kinabalu

Always great to finally get out of the marina and away. The task today was to use the last of the free flowing tap water and wash down the boat, a few last minute shopping things and then once out of the marina go to a fuel barge off the township and fill 'er up.

Now we are at anchor in a small bay off Gaya island which is one of three island that make up a marine park off KK. Very pretty.

With a few extra jugs for diesel we have around 540 litres of fuel aboard. This relates to a around 700 miles of motoring. As our trip is around 1800 miles we hope to not have to stop to get fuel and still be able to motor on calm days.

This message is sent using our email system on the boat. It uses a special 'modem' called a pactor which communicates with our short wave radio to another radio, in this case in India, which then sends it on through the Internet. Much much slower the WiFi, but much better range.

If you post a comment on the blog, the comment will be emailed to us on-board.

Colin and the girls.

PS: the legs have almost recovered from climbing Mt Kinabalu!