Anchored up the river near Port Klang, Malaysia

Hi All,

  Our passage today was 72.3 nautical miles; a long day. We pulled up anchor just as it got light about 6:41 am.  We had a favorable current in the morning and then again in the late afternoon so we made it in at 6:15 pm before dark.  The passage was calm and the weather was good.  Can’t complain.  Yesterday we saw a gigantic tortoise floating along.  Tomorrow we’ll go on to the marina at Port Dixon. 

  I still have some photos to share from our time in the cool Cameron Highlands.  Wish we could have captured some of the weather to take along the way.

Ru

DoraMac

Cameron Highlands Strawberries

“Cameron Highlands is the nation’s prime producer of fresh vegetables and flowers. The vast acreage of vegetation has earned Cameron Highlands the name ‘Salad Bowl of Malaysia.’ With its fertile soil, the highlands is also found to be conducive for commercial cultivation of strawberries and oranges.”

Randal’s favorite parts of our Cameron Highlands visit were the strawberry farm and the Boh Tea Plantation. The strawberries were wonderful and we had some with sugar and whipped cream. I have no photos of the berries that we ate because I was racing Randal to see who could have the most and I wasn’t about to lose out while I took photos.

Before we could even get there we had to go through this nightmare traffic mess but our driver did just fine.

Our tour driver in the bandanna explains to the Irishman who hates bugs and Randal how the strawberries are grown.

Randal was fascinated that the strawberries were grown hydroponically and that the growing compound surrounding the plant was ground up palm oil kernel husks.

There were rows and rows of strawberries.

The strawberry shelters went all the way up the mountain which was much more impressive than I captured in this photo.

Strawberry treats!

Even Mickey Mouse was eating strawberries.

Strawberry related products were sold everywhere.

I think it’s cute! We wish that we could have loaded up on fresh corn and broccoli to take back to the boat. By the time it’s sold in George Town it doesn’t look half as fresh. There were probably hundreds of these vegetable and fruit stalls through the Highlands.

This was part of a display at the Tea Plantation.

Next email our visit to the Boh Tea Plantation.