Offshore Ep 2 - Check into Floating Hotel

My destination - Bokor Field. The facilities here are unmanned facilities, thus no living quarters (xde tmpt mau tdo la...) so, if you have so much to do at the platform and have to sleep overnight (or many, many nights), what do you do??

You called into location, a floating, temporary hotel facility!!! Yeay!! Problem solved :) Big smile on everyone's faces!! Except that, without complete anchoring (which is the case with this thing now, as it is not exactly on the desired location and anchoring business can be quite tedious), this thing tend to 'go with the flow' a.k.a rolling with the waves. Can be quite dizzying even on a good weather day.

To check into this hotel, you have to do this! Boat transfer! The smaller boat take you from the jetty and transport you to the floating hotel. This is the same when you want to go to the platforms from the floating hotel. Actually, if you want to go to the floating hotel or you want to go to any other places from the floating hotel, you have to do this. Simple really, when you are comfy with the distance and height of both ends of the boat transfer, grab the rope tight with both hands and jump!! Yeay!! The key is CONFIDENCE. If you feel you can do it, DO IT. If you dont, dont. If it takes 30 mins for you to do this, then take your time. If you think that you will never have the confidence to do this, then maybe offshore is not your thing.

After checking in, after doing some work and after 5 boat transfers, I hang out on the top deck of our hotel. And this is the beautiful sunset i saw offshore, near Bokor. The captain told us that red sunset means good weather, red sunrise means bad weather. Well, the weather was good for the next 2 days...