Port Klang to Lumut to Penang

Leaving Port Klang, our next stop was an overnight anchorage a short way up Sungai Bernam. We spent a very peaceful late afternoon watching the fishing boats coming and going from the villages along the river.

The following day we sailed to the town of Lumut, again a short distance up a river. While passing by the large naval base near the mouth of the river we spotted a visiting navy vessel with a red kangaroo emblem-Australian of course.

While at Lumut, Richard happened to meet a young couple from San Francisco who are travelling around the world on a motorcycle and left one year ago. They told him there are actually quite a few people who do this.`

We stayed only a couple of days at Lumut. We had to use our screens on the boat to ward off the mosquitoes and decided it was time to leave rivers behind. Because it is 80 miles to the island of Penang, our next stop, we left Lumut before dark and did an overnight sail, ensuring a daylight arrival. We must have seen over a hundred fishing boats. They all had lights so we had no problem avoiding them. And the thunderstorms kept their distance so it was a pleasant night.

When we reached Penang and were going up the channel, we passed under the long bridge that connects the large city of Georgetown with the industrial mainland city of Butterworth. (Not very Malaysian sounding names.) We managed to dodge the frequent large ferries that cross back and forth between the cities before pulling into Tanjong City Marina.