Friday November 1

                

Sky Bridge

                 
Today is a serious beach day.  We rented our chairs at 10 am and planted ourselves on the beach.  I have an E-reader with several new books and Joan swam in the ocean all day.  Caroline and Ali arrived mid morning and joined us on the beach.  Caroline had brought beach towels for all so we look like serious beach people.  The mornings are hot, but the afternoons are very hot, so we dunk ourselves every hour to cool off.  (except Joan who stays in forever).  Shortly before sunset we got a cab to the Skybridge in Lankawi and took the Gondola car 700m up to the top.  The Skybridge was closed but the view was great.  Sunset was slow that night so we started back down shortly before sunset.  What luck!  The cable car broke down.  We were stranded for 45min hanging 100meters above the jungle gently swaying in the wind.   Sunset came and went.  It’s a good thing nobody was afraid of heights.  After 30 minutes we called the emergency number posted on the Gondola door and they actually answered.  They told us they were switching to emergency service and we would be running again in 5 minutes.  Indeed shortly after 5 minutes we restarted and the gondola crawled back to earth.  We were each given a free bottle of water for our ordeal.                                                     

At the Top

Stranded