Finally managed to arrive into KaoHsiung in one piece yesterday afternoon. It is never really comforting to see a 330m ship flexing like a piece of ruler inthe rough seas off Taiwan.
Typhoon Haitang have left Taiwan at a standstill for a day and many shipsdelayed and obviously many clients anxious for their cargoes. The ship willbe definitely be late for Hong Kong and Shekou, if anything of this schedule goes by.
My Taiwanese supper yesterday was washed away by the torrential rain. Not inthe literal sense but the pouring rains left a wet blanket over my appetite.The stevedore's offer to ferry me out on his mini-scooter had to be turned down.
It was nice of him to offer me the ride out, but to make him scoot me thereand back in the pouring rain for my stomach, seems rather unjustified.
Just to think after 11 long days (it did seemed terribly long this timethough... probably due to the bad weather outside prior arrival to Taiwan) Iwas warming up to a nice warm meal ashore and the rains just had to washeverything off... Tsk tsk... seems like the heavens do not think too highly of my late night supper.
Eventually I ended up munching on Amos cookies and more dry rations in my cabin for my supper. So much for my Taiwanese treats.
As at press time, Typhoon Haitang have been degraded to TS (tropical storm)and have made its way into the Fujian province. Tracking her have beenstressful. There was a point of time when it made a round-about turn.... anda possiblity of it making its way towards us. No doubt the ship is big andrelatively new, still the forces of nature are not to be written off easily.
Time for my siesta. So much for now.
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