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Pulau Tenggol, 28 April 2007 - 1 May 2007
Labour’s Day, Wesak Day..long leave, hangs the ‘Gone Diving’ sign.
Had locally brewed coffee and half-boiled ayam kampong eggs as breakfast at one of the old-styled coffee shops in Kuala Dungun. Met Aaron of Malaysian Diving Community and Melvin from
Rendezvous with the rest of group from Global Scuba at the jetty. Everybody’s kinda still in their shell and spare each other only with the normal formality, introductions and hand-shakes. Maybe, still tipsy from the long journey to Kuala Dungun.They’ll crack later.
After the boat journey about an hour and 45 minutes later, we arrived at the resort, Tenggol Island Beach Resort (‘TIRB’). For simplicity of reference, it’s the one in the middle. There are 2 other resorts on the left and right of TIRB. Assigned to a room with 4 other guys (obviously), Jijoi, Asun, Leo and Nazri.
After lunch, our check-out dive was at Teluk Air Tawar followed by Tanjung Gemuk. Tanjung Gemuk really lives up to its other name, the ‘
The following day dives were at Teluk Nakhoda-Teluk Rajawali, Gua Rajawali (please don’t be looking for a cave because there’s none) and Batu Changchang.The best of them all would be Teluk Nakhoda-Teluk Rajawali since that was the first dive with my buddy, Shiraz who remained as my buddy for the remaining of my dives in Pulau Tenggol.
We had something in common. We are freaking slow divers and enjoyed the sightings of nudibranch with eggs, pufferfish, butterfly fishes, blue ring angelfishes, six-banded angelfishes, yellow mask angelfishes, scorpionfish, juvenile batfishes and a bumphead. Batu Changchang offered nothing much and the reef is not a pristine as the ones visited earlier. Once again, sighted a turtle and different species of angelfishes. A night dive to the Vietnamese Wreck followed suit. Nothing much at the dive site except for sighting of hermit crab and decorator crab. The trip back to shore offered more sightings of marine life such a sleeping puffer fish and heaps of greenish/bluish toad fishes scattered almost everywhere dozing. By that time, the camera’s already out of battery which is not bad since I hadn’t changed any since the first dive. Energizer e-lithium batteries recommended by Bobo was a marvel. Thanks Bobo for the tips.
The next day, we went to Tokong Timur, Moonracker and another dive at the Vietnamese Wreck(s).
To be continued.
Labels: pulau tenggol, scuba
Friday, April 20, 2007
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Ouuch...it hurts
[Cracking sound]
I can hear my lower part of my knee gave away as I fell awkwardly on the turf. Shit…after a miniscule 2 minutes of the first game I’m out of the tourney already. All the 3 Saturdays of practice went out the window coz I don’t think I can continue.
It’s really a drag coz this our ’89 team came prepared for the annual SMSAH futsal tourney for my secondary school alumni. We wanted to reach at least the quartersemi-final this time around. By the way we have been practising, reaching the quarterfinals is not something impossible.
Like the year before, after the game, we went for a get-together for a meal and this time around it’s at the banana leaf restaurant at Jalan Gasing. After, 2 kilos of fried shrimp (yup, 2 kilos) everybody went home except me who went to the nearest hospital to have my knee x-ray’ed.