A pic of an inner harbor in Singapore, and my son's narrative:
We're still making our way west, but I don't think we'll be doing it for too much longer. The end is in sight, at least as far as sailing west is concerned. There's not really too much to look forward to, of course: I've already told you all there is to know about Fujayrah. Oh well. With luck we'll head north into the Gulf at least once while we're out here and make a stop in Dubai.
Here's a composite pic of the Singapore skyline I took from my hotel room. The towers on the left are part of a huge casino complex that has gone up over the past six months. The place is going to be open by December; it's amazing how fast you can build something like that when you don't have labor unions to work around. The Bay itself is pretty cool, in that the entire thing has been one huge engineering project the past few years to turn it into a freshwater reservoir. The mouth has a series of huge floating doors they call a Barrage; when the tide goes out, the doors lower with it and allow water to flow out of the bay. When it flows in, the doors float up and block saltwater from entering. I guess when you have an entire country on one tiny island, water can be an issue.