Guests on board LW2

Date: June 17, 2017
Trip #7 (#27)
Weather: Sunny 
Waters: Fairly flat, peak high tide at 7pm 
On board: C, A, J2 and R, with guests KH, J and ZQ 

C had extended an invitation for KH and his family to join us on board in the mid-year, when ZQ would be on holiday, though studying for his PSLE. 

So on this sunny Saturday, just a week after our last outing, we had KH and family with us, their first time on LW2, after having been on LW with us at least twice before. KH brought his fishing tackle. 

Skipper C invited ZQ to sit with him and gave him the job
of monitoring the water depth on the screen. 

We set out relatively late, after 1pm, and  made for Pulau Hantu, where we were last week. The waters were considerably clearer today, and we could see clear to the bottom. The tide was low in the lagoon, about 1.1m, but rising. This isn't the season for sargassum seaweed, but there was plenty of this other kind of weed in the water, brownish green floating scum that looked quite gross. 

A quick search of the Internet yielded no clues on the name of this scummy
type of seaweed. It was mostly brown, but had some greenish parts at the
end of some branches. 

The lagoon was so shallow that the propellers appeared to strike a rock or coral in our approach to the lagoon. There was no further trouble after that, and a check showed a slightly scuffed propeller blade.

The tree with the bare branches at the top had a second Brahminy kite in it this week. (It was a lone kite just a week ago, see last post here.) With the telephoto lens attached to her camera, A waded about 80m from the boat to get closer to the tree, and got the following shot: 

Much closer than the pic last week. Still not a Nat Geo closeup though.

J2 and ZQ went into the water, and ZQ prattled the afternoon away, telling stories about his classmates and school, and showing his prowess with the Rubik's cube, which took him no more than five minutes to solve. The boy is on the schools-level national team for Scrabble as well, beating both J2 and R in the course of the afternoon with some pretty strategic play. 

Horsin' around. 

KH went to the bow and cast his line using just a lure, no bait, live or otherwise. He came up empty. The lagoon seemed pretty devoid of fish today. 

Back at the marina later, C set the boy to work by flushing the windlass with fresh water.  We ended the day with dinner at the marina's Discovery Pub. 

An afternoon's fun didn't come free for this lad.
'Child labour' was used in the cleaning of
this boat, haha.