Following the midnight dip we finally, just after lunch time arrived off the entrance to Surabaya Harbour. The now daily North Easterly had set in and was in full swing against the ebbing 2kts of current coming out of the harbour. .
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| https://youtu.be/0M5-zZ9uKSM |
We surfed , literally, down the channel across the shallowest part, and past the Pilot station. The breakwater of the pilot station seemed to be comprised of what we decided were possibly the remains of either some failed pilotages or if they have them in Surabaya, exemption runs. Several rusting hulks, left as reminders perhaps!
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| Surabaya Pilot Station- liberally decorated with rusting hulks.Not the best advertisment really! |
As soon as the surfing ceased and the channel deepened it became calm enough to throw some washing on.
By the time we were in the harbour itself, the cockpit adorned with our washing gave us the appearance of floating laundry, as we picked our way through the anchorage.
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| laundry vessel manouvering through the anchorage at Surabaya |
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| They can't have much anchor cable out -there simply isn't room |
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| Personally I reckon they could have got a couple of boxes of matches on there as well! |
I’m guessing its Raferty's rules when it comes to anchoring ,and try as we might we could not distinguish any shackle markings on the cables of the ships we passed. If they had more than 3 shackles out in the 10-12m, I would be astounded. There simply was not the room for them to have had more.
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| Whoopsie - wreckage in Surabaya- note we are approaching it, Not causing it! |
Further up the harbour , beyond the main anchorage , and just before we dusk we saw some more failures, the remains just above the water line in one case and clearly visibly aground in the other.
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| Hmmm- wasn't me- honest! |
We anchored for the first time in seven nights, just on dark, just west of the very impressive bridge.
Not even the duelling mosques kept us awake for long.
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