Just landed in Tawau airport
October 4th, with barely much needed sleep, off we go jetting to the East M'sia for the very first time! Took us about 2hours 45mins before we reach, then we have to take a one hour cab to the jetty. ( Damn, i hate this part about the island trips ! )All i see was trees..trees...greens...more trees, just imagine Sarawak? LoL.
Not too long after we reach the jetty, we entered the speed boat and it took about 30minutes before we reach our budget home stay. I was expecting pretty bad accommodation, but thankfully its not bad at all, only sad part is they do not have hot shower, and the water is half salty and half clear/normal water. The view of the place is amazing, the water is really clear, the girls then started doing what they do best.. TAKING PICTURES!! hehe
Almost instant after we dropped our bags in the room, we were told to get ready. YES READY FOR DIVE!! Muahahaha i was just super excited, and damn it did not disappoint at all! We saw so many new stuffs, and learnt new species too.. Oh yes, i can finally say i dive with A LOT of turtles, camwhored with so many of them as well, heaheahe!! Here are just some of the pics of dive 1 & 2.
*If you want to see more! I have uploaded 4albums in facebook, so don't be shy and head over there :)*
Blue-Yellow Ribbon Eel
Me chasing a turtle :P
Chinese eye turtle :P lol
Scorpion fish
Nudibranch (a sea slug)
Another shot of Ying
Day 2: What else? Dive dive dive!!!!!!!
Breakfast time :D (with a view of the ocean, Best.)
Crocodile Flat Head (full body)
Me with a Lion fish
Day 3: There was something different about day3, we woke early as usual to have our breakfast and off we go to our first dive! But we manage to get Roger & Ying to do discover scuba, whereby they only learn how to breathe underwater and mask clearing, just some basic and get to feel how scuba diving it's like. Not surprisingly, they enjoyed it to the max! They were lucky enough to see turtles, lion fishes, pipe fish.. even manage to capture a few not very good pictures of them with a turtle, haha..It was at a very sandy bottom, so it was pretty hard to take nice pics.
This Nudibranch is called - Pikachu
Super cute isn't it? :D
Pipe fish in babie's hand
Baby taking a picture of a turtle ass..
Andy, Ying & Roger. A picture before their first underwater breathe!
Roger & Ying (Not only the sand made it unclear, but the fishes kept swimming around!)
After their discover scuba, we had to rush off to Semporna city at the jetty for a night. Everyone that wants to go Sipadan needs to spend a night there, some kinda new rule implemented by the government i think? I will just post a few pics of what we took in the "city" and then continue the Sipadan trip and our final dive in Mabul in the next entry :) Enjoy!
