Last night was more excitement. At 3:15 am we were awakened by an announcement in the cabin from the captain calling for First Station on deck 10 in the breadbox. At least that's what it sounded like. Fifteen minutes later he came back on to say there had been a small fire on deck 10, but it was out now and the smoke should be clearing soon, so not to worry, everything is fine. And again 15 minutes later to ask those on deck 10 to please not open their cabin doors, that the smoke would clear better if they let the ventilation work. Needless to say, sleep was a long time coming after that.
Kota Kinabalu is the capital of the state of Sabah, one of the states of Malaysia and located on the island of Borneo along with parts of Indonesia and the nation of Brunei. This morning was a tour of "the colours of Borneo", although I have no idea why it was called that. We took a nice air conditioned bus on a 45 minute drive to a sort of beach resort (I use that term generously) where we made a little batik painting, had a chance to try a blow dart weapon, and had tea and banana fritters. There was a beach, with jelly fish warnings, and nice hammocks in the shade and that was about it. We spent 90 minutes there, which was 30 minutes too long. It was terribly hot and humid. Then we drove to a pottery factory, which was ok, then back to the ship. We did get a chance to see the extremes - lots of high rise office and apartment buildings going up, and then poor tin roof houses of wood with trash all over. They all had satellite dishes though.
Again the pool was very refreshing after the heat. During dinner the captain explained that the incident last night was a fire in the motor of a dishwasher in the room service kitchen on deck 10. It was promptly extinguished and no one was hurt.
Tomorrow is another sea day before Vietnam.
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