Tangoing City Marina, George Town, Penang, Malaysia

Hi All,

  Looks like my lucky Red Sox charms haven’t kicked in yet.  Luckily it’s a long season.  Randal and I are making plans to actually move along our journey at the end of the month.  Our neighbor Jane told us to stay.  I said, either we have to go or “we live here” and the whole point of cruising is to live nowhere.  We really have enjoyed our time here and will miss Patrick and Elizabeth who are moving along on their own journey and Jane and Roger who will stay until the end of the year.  But we will see them other times in other places.

Ru

DoraMac

Cameron Highlandscontinued……

The first stop of the tour was a Buddhist Temple. At least that’s what I heard someone say. I asked our driver and he said he didn’t know much about temples as he was a “free thinker.” My favorite part was patting the black koi fish.

Everything in the temple was huge, gold, or very colorful.

I liked the elephant.

Clothing that is different from western dress always fascinates me. This monk was very seriously attending to his chores so I didn’t go over to chat. I truly know too little to ask an intelligent question.

I wasn’t even tempted to put my finger in its mouth but did wish I’d had something to feed it.

The golden fish darted away, but the black koi seemed to like to be pat. It felt like touching smooth, solid water; but not hard like ice.

Later during the tour we visited a Butterfly Garden though the main attraction wasn’t in the butterfly cage.

A black rhinoceros beetle on a sugar cane.

One of the young girls on our tour held the cane. A very tall young Irishman also held the sugar cane but urged me to quickly take his photo because he really hated bugs. (It was with his camera or I could show you the look of horror on his face.)

Both snakes were Burmese Python; the yellow was an albino I was told.

These interesting insects were called Walking Sticks!

Lizards of some sort.

I was actually fascinated by all of this and though they were in enclosures, they seemed clean and well kept. When Randal and I went hiking the next day, it did occur to me that some of these creatures were out there too. More about that hike in another email.