Well, sort of. Here at Discovery Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong, a gorgeous Eco-friendly development of 25,000 or so residents living, working, sending their kids to schools, worshipping, beaching, exercising, shopping, walking, dining at beautiful outdoor restaurants and just living life, no ICE powered private vehicles are permitted. So - You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you NEEEEED! Terry and me are riding two up, with me doing the hard rickshaw pedaling up and down the hills.
Lantau Yacht Club here at Discovery Bay is where Shangri-La 6047 was delivered to us from the shipyard a couple days ago. We have worked hard getting to know her and getting her ready to receive the contents of our ocean crossing container, all of which will be brought to LYC in commercial delivery vehicles over the next several days. Today at 9:00 AM is household goods. Tuesday is tools, bikes, fishing and diving gear including air compressor and tanks. Then over the next few days we take on the tender, Triumph Scrambler, chocks for both, water maker, FLIR camera, AIS base station and other equipment including heavy ground tackle. It is in the 90’s and humid here, so there WILL be sweat. I am up at 4:30 AM putzing as usual, so thought I would write something down to record the moment. We are soon going to be swallowed up by the enormous task of getting all that stuff in the right place and properly stowed or installed. It is gonna take a while.
Check out the photos of us two up on my rickshaw and then standing by the prettiest new girl in town (T excluded in the competition of course). Shangri-La is one heck of a ride! Terry is aching to get on board full time so that she can cook in her new galley, admire Howard’s beautiful panelized painting of our dock back at our cottage at The Rivah, enjoy a glass of wine on/in the ??? (she can pick the place as the options are many - flybridge, cockpit, under the sunshade on the foredeck, pilothouse, dining area, salon, primary SR seat in the book nook, or maybe even the huge shower.
I will try to post after we clean up the big mess we are going to make for the next couple days and show what our efforts produce.
Jack
