This was a member organised trip and staff had to support the trip, however with the limited experience that most of the staff have, we were not able to fully support the members. Hence selected staff followed the members during this Labour day trip to learn and gain experience so as to organise such trip in future.
Once at the clubhouse, I distributed the port clearance and immigration crew list to the respective members. At about 1000H, we left the clubhouse on Eric Cheong boat, named Bam Bam II. We headed out and in less than 10 minutes, we had to head back to the clubhouse due to some sensor fault but was not able to identify. Eric got the rest of the boats to go ahead while he have his engine rectified and catch up later. Back at the clubhouse, after some check and topping up of oil, we proceed out again.
Been a long time since I transit through East Johore Straits (EJS), this used to be my playground during my training period. Sorry no photos to show as I dun want my camera to be splashed with sea water. We proceed along EJS till the mouth of the straits where to stop around South Angler Buoy and waited for the immigration boat. My first experience of immigration at sea. We called them on radio and waited for them to come to us. It was during lunchtime and we waited for almost an hour before the immigration boat came to us and did our clearance. We put our passports and the necessary documents in a ziplock bag and place them in a net before handing it over to the immigration crew. After we got our passports back, we proceed to cross the Singapore Straits and head toward our destination, Nongsa Point Marina Resort.
It was a nice place to relax and chill seriously, only thing is that it's troublesome to come by personal private boat as you need to get this documents that documents, nevertheless, this way its exclusive and hence an entirely different experience. This place can also be reached via ferry at Nongsa Putra Ferry Terminal. After lunch, we checked into our resort room and enjoy the afternoon.
In the evening, we chartered a bus and went to Wingsor A1 for our dinner. We had quite a number of dishes and drinks before we head back to the resort and call it a day.
The next days we had shopping at Nongsa Hill, walk about and dinner at Harbour Bay as well as swimming at the resort.
On Sunday after lunch we head back to Singapore. All in all a good trip and the members and their family enjoyed it. More to come Members & Friends!!!
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