PERHENTIAN 3D3N

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Location:: Pulau Perhentian Besar/Kecil

Date:: 8th August - 12th August 2007

Resort/Dive Center:: Bubbles Resort & Dive Center

Divers:: Kym, Jon, Yingfong and Yours Truly.

Photos downsized and cut down narration, too lengthy lar.

8th Aug Wednesday

All of us head to Newton Hawker Center Carpark to gather and board the Singapore coach to Tuas Custom. I thought I was early, but YingFong was even earlier! All but one, Kym, were on time. In the end, ChongPheng has to take over Kym's mother at the wheels to catch up with us (we left Newton before Kym reached). Meantime, the rest on coach seemed pretty unfriendly commenting on the girl-who-came-late rudely.

Oh, look at the poor scooter hidden at the corner!::

Can't wait to play it in the waters! And yeah, carrying it around makes me look soooo cool and made a few friends. LOL. But with the expense of my strength and energy. 15kg lar!

Everything were smooth. We changed to a 28seaters coach after Malaysia custom. The drivers played Stephen Chow's show. But he didnt release the mid bus tv for those seated at the back. So I had to strain my eyes and almost couldnt hear anything. The show ended when we alighted at YongPeng for dinner.

Back to the coach for another like say.... 10 hours?

9th Aug Thursday

Happy Birthday Singapore! And Good Morning to all~

Sun shone to buttside. At about 8am+ we reached KB Jetty. I thought it was earlier than expected. Slack around and some grabbed ice cream some grabbed water. I grabbed T.O.I.L.E.T.. Oh, did I mention the driver eventually horlan-ed at 3am+?? Ho ho ho. U turns and U turns.

Moving our belongings and asses to the boat @ jetty::

After a 45mins boat ride, we reached Bubbles DC. Greeted by.. ahem! Handsome boys, made me so excited! ZZzz.. And then we settled down and waited for 1.5hrs before we had our first dive~

Had the dive brief::

1st Dive site was Batu Nisah where temperature was about 29°C.

Greeted by huge ray::

And crab!::And of course many other small stuff. But because I havent gotten use to my camera settings, so my peekchures sux. Plus, we were all sooooo tired after the long bus journey.

Frantically looking for hair conditioner after only one dive::

After first dive, still hyped, took silly picture::

2nd dive site was D' Lagoon (or De Lagoon) with temperature of about 30°C.

The first picture that I took was my favourite Yellow Boxfish::

And then Dive Guide Rhi led us to the cleaner shrimps.. I was abit afraid to touch at first but her patience helped overcome my reluctance.. Here goes, the shrimps clearing my dead skin on hand::And afterwhich there was this cute tiny yellow fish that keeps circling the area of Kym's butt. Heh. Its moves were so swift that I didnt manage to get any good pictures of it.

At this point of time, my camera died on me. The big puffer was just right in front of me and my camera died.. Urgh. So I couldnt reflash back, what I had seen. :(

Back to land, one smart-alec volunteered to take room key from the reception for us, so we waited at our alfresco area, also Jon's "bedroom". I was fiddling with my camera when I heard all of them shouted "wahlao.."! Smart-Alec YF had thrown the key too high up and landed on the rooftop!

The guys trying many ways to retrieve the key, with Roger as well::

My roomie aint smart. :s Attempted for 20mins before we see the key again! Stupid YF!

Took turns to bathe and headed for dinner! Had long crappy chats with Gan, Eric, CP.. Kym was complaining Rhi to Gan and Eric. IMHO I find Rhi okway.. They said she had very strict rules like disallowing them to go near objects and saying we were so slow and the speed we were going, we can never cover the whole site. I dont know, to each of its own. I am not so particular for Dive Guides.. Oh well..

10th Aug Friday

Woke at early 8.50am for the 9.00am dive.

3rd dive site was at Tokong Laut with temperature 30°C. This dive onwards, I wore my virgin RED rashie... Feeling cold la... Brrghhh.. Must be the room aircon at 19°C!

Oh and we changed our DM from Rhi to Eric.

While Kym trying hard to descend, the three of us took many many shots of clownfishes during the wait nearby::

We were expecting bamboo sharks..

Indeed! Bamboo shark where all of us touched them!::Hallo blue blue rays::

Took love love shrimps!::

And that's Jon on left and me on right::

Had a Happy chicken lunch::

4th dive site was at Seabell with temperature of about 29°C.

Salps greeted us! I didnt take the one that is bundled up like a long long tube though::Alot of Razor Fishes too!! But visibility werent clear enough for me to take shots.. :(

And then there were nudis....::

After dive, approaching shore, I hopped out of boat... To... erm... pee~ Kym has to ask loudly, "Eve you want to pee again ar?" TSK! Then Ah Gan said, "Wahlao, need to announce meh?!" I told Gan, "I wasnt the one to announce wor...." Gan continued, "Want to pee need to announce ar!?! Pee lor!" Expected, the entire boat stare at me while I stood in waters.. HOW TO PEE?!! Brrrgh.

And hell yeah, I was complaining of the strain in carrying the tanks to and fro each time we dive...::

5th dive site was.... Batu Layar with temp of 30°C.

Took a pic of DevilFish? (I was the only one to take for this dive yet not knowing what was it)::

I argued with Gan, this fish is blinking its eyes! Gan says, fish no eye lids! Muahaha... Fight lor.

I happily took Goby the entire dive... Attempting to shoot Goby with the pistol shrimp, which proudly, i did!::

And we saw school of yellow-tailed barracudas during safety stop! hehe

Hence, Eve's happy face::

Asked CP to take a group shot for us too.. Not sure is the Boatman posing as well...::

Then poor CP threw up when reaching shore.. :( He was suffering from a bad headache.. Where the rest were joking maybe his student very hard to teach.. HAHA!

And hell yeah, I was complaining of the strain in carrying the tanks to and fro each time we dive...::

And then when I tried to pee again, Gan (who was snorkeling with his student then) came over grab my legs! Yea Yea, CP followed... They trying to drown me in my own pee leh... DOH! One grab my legs the other grab my hands and flung me into the sea! WHY AR?!?! ME AGAIN??!

Had a happy dive. And that RED thing on my neck is my rashie NOT a scarf cos water cold hor!!::

All chirpy eh? Keke.. *happy*

We then started a volleyball game after a failed attempt to Kayak with YF (cos we were told its too late, no lights). Players include Gan, Jon, YF, Kym and myself!

Kym (pick ball) Gan (suan ple) Me (player)::

We played till all of us are blinded by the darkness. Turtle island no lights on beach. Dinner was longed served.. okway.. Head to dinner.

He is the reason why I blushed::

Handsome giving turtle talk at 9.20pm. Shiets! I didnt even get his name... So many knew I am trying to hitch him up that I got soooooo embrarrased in the end didnt even get his name. Sigh.

I kept saying I want to shower but I dragged till 11pm then finally to shower. Didnt want to be talk of the group the next day.. "Eve didnt shower last night".. So oh well, dragged my ass to shower. Slept at 11.30pm.

11th Aug Saturday

Woke at freaking 7am+ for snorkeling to find the 2m Black Tip Shark. Gan came to our room cos we were late.. Haha.. To think the night before I warned him he cannot be late cos we need to rush for our dives.

Me with Scooter::

Visibility was bad and I only saw one 1m shark.

View of Jon riding the scooter when me and YF held on to him::

We sadly fin back to shore and rush for our 6th dive when Eric stood at shore reckoning us to hurry back.. Oh well... Not in luck to wave at the 2m shark.

6th dive site was the Vietnamese Wreck at 29°C.

Kym got problem heading down again so she descend with YF while me and Jon followed Eric.

While waiting, we saw a school of Barracudas... *droooool* By the time they came down, only a few were wandering around... Visibility was so bad that photos werent clear at all.

I saw a Moray nearby and took a shot::

Happy Eve nevertheless::

Hurried back to pack our bags as we have to check out our room before our last dive! Okway, I know, what kinda logic is that!!??! But oh well.... We did as told.

Our bunk! (before check out must take pic!)::

7th dive site, which is also our last dive is at Tiger Rock with temp of 30°C.

Heh ^^ All the macros!

Camoflouge crabie::

Shrimps::

Some sort of Pipefish::

Of course alot more than these, but pictures not clear so didnt bother to even post them up here. HAHA! Cannot show people how bad a photographer I am!

This is what people do when they so bored at safety stop 5m... I didnt self take my 'dou-ji' eyes hor!::

Happy Kym and Eve::As usual, horlan on land as well.. Couldnt find the Rm 315 which we were allocated to use for shower... :( Ran about in the hot burning sand. Gave up and was re-directed to the nearest shower room instead. Keke.

Packed up chop chop and had fruits as lunch.

Went to Dive Shop for stamping on dive logs and took peekchures!!

CP's gf, Me, Kym and Gan::

The other group plus me and Kym::

Bye to-the-place-i-spent-7-dives and the scooter...::

Thats me in purple, bye bye perhentian..::

Then the rest stood at shore waved us GOODBYE~ *sob*

After 45mins boat ride reached Jetty and hot hot hot weather!

On the bus::

Sat on the same bus from 4.30pm onwards..... Had yummy Chee Char dinner RM20/pax. Then continued journey back to Singapore... This time, the driver released the mid bus tv!! Playing Ratouquille! LOL. But we all fell asleep.. Really tooooo tired.

12th Aug Sunday

Reached custom at 4am! By the time reach home already 5am.. Shared a cab with Jon and Roger. :)

The section that some of you loved most... The I.N.J.U.R.I.E.S. section::

All wounds are gotten when boarding the boat! How craps! Best of all, the right bottom pic, till today, it finally swell up. I hit the boat propelle. :s

And the Top Left, I bought a tee! Hehe

-End of Trip-

Thanks to the wonderful Dive Guides::

Thanks to my fellow divers, without them, this trip is not possible::

Thanks Kym for the invitation::

Myself in Perhentian...

My favourite shots.

Gan said, there are three kinds of divers...

1. Dive, then end of dive.

2. Dive, then take photos then come up review, end of dive.

3. Dive, take photos, come up review, then go back Singapore home do research.

They say I belonged to the third category. Because I say I too shortsighted and usually I cant see underwater and have extreme STM, so I took pictures of them and do research at home. Heh^^ Plus, I do not have rich knowledge on marine life, so usually after every dive trip, I have to do research when I got back home... :)

Gan said, "This is then called, D.I.V.I.N.G.." -the third category