Perhentian ... Part 2

So let's continue with the Perhentian trip...a bit too long to get this trip story done...considering i still dun have any pics frm them about it. Anyway, let's continue with our snorkeling trips. The arrangements was made with the hotel itself. We get to go 3 spots for this afternoon trip..which I forgotten what names were they...I know one of it is Shark Point. :P The next 3 was scheduled the next morning. After a while that I did not go snorkeling, the fear of the deep sea engulfs me once again, but then..as usual, thinking that I can do wonders with a life jacket on...then came this voice: JUMP IN ONLY LA~! And so...I did just that. We were joined with a group of people from JB. Heard from their leader they are from a factory. There were 28-29 of them. So it was a convoy of 3 small boats. Snorkelling has always been fun...but this time around, fishes looked the same, big portion of the corals are dead... sighh..seriously, there's more things needed to be done to conserve these places. NY raised a point, what's the RM5 fee for, if this money is not put to use for efforts to conserve these underwater creature/beings? 

After the first spot, there was an unfortunate event. One guy had seizures...and he was  unconcious for sometime. Very scary...coz when they fished him up from the sea, he was all white...we can see it from the other boat.. The next day when I asked the leader, he said he's ok at that time coz he was sent to the nearest hospital already. Very creepy indeed. He shouldn't have went into the sea if he knew he had a medical condition...

We went on to the 2nd n 3rd spot. I was having trouble with my goggles...actually it's how I placed it. So didn't really get to 

enjoy it that much...Well, plus another part that I almost drowned coz I was under the boat...but that was just a short point of time.. We got to see turtles~ ... I missed it when I was in the sea...we saw it surfaced when we were on the boat :p If we knew earlier, we would've just stayed on board :p Very tiring wan leh...even for ppl who knows how to swim! 

We got back from sea about evening. Tea time was almost over. What we could grab was a piece of sandwich and we were all darn hungry then. Went back to our rooms and took bath. Went down to jalan-jalan and wait for makan time later. Went to the mini mart to grab some chips...things were so expensive! What to expect island price, kena chop chop... :P 

Dinner time was great! BBQ Seafood for dinner. Excellent la. Food was abundant...unlike one of my forumer friend's experience when he was there. We had dunno how many rounds of BBQ squid and lamb.. since i'm still without pics..I'll post up one pic I took la. 

After dinner, we went jalan-jalan to check out the island. Since our plans to Perhentian Kecil didn't really work out considering it cost a bomb to go over n come back! the ppl told us the water taxi was at least RM75 two way...PER PERSON! That's a bit too expensive la. We were walking n taking crazy pics at night creeping our ownself out... and then we bump into this nice like place. Had a glass of liquor each...I had Singapore Sling. NY had Pina Colada and ML had Mai Tai, Lorraine had a Tiger. Each cocktail was RM25 perglass. The people there are friendly. We got to know the lady boss who opened one of the budget stays. Diver's something..need to check it out. It's new and it cost like only RM100 per night. Looks nice too. So that was our first night...

Hmm..looks like part 3 needs to wait also.. :P 

Perhentian.. Part 1

Hey all..the long awaited update on my recent Perhentian Trip. :) To summarised, it was a great getaway with loads of memories/lessons to bring home with.

Date: 24-26Aug 2008
Participants: NY, Grace, Lorraine, Mun Leng, Me

This all-girl trip thingy was planned way way ahead...so when my boss was saying that he wasn't going to let me off, I was really very disappointed, at points very pissed off...but nevertheless, he couldn't really hold me back la...coz I planned and paid for at least 3/4 of the trip dy. So the day arrived and started as early as 5am... We were supposed to gather at ML's place to wait for the cabbie to send us there at 5.30am. I was too excited the night before that I couldn't really sleep much! :P

Although sleepy, but once all of us got together, we started chit chatting away from the time we left ML's house right up to the airport. It was an hour plus journey and we didn't even pause our conversation leh.. :P I wonder if the taxi guy was surprised that we were so semangat that early in the morning. Anyway, NY already checked us in, so we were taking our own sweet time to get to the gate. Erm...suppose to be entering the gates by 7am, we were still in McD right up till 720am...well..until they started the announcement to board. By the time we entered, it was last call for our flight. :p So not bad for AirAsia flight...new plane...airbus 320...comfy. Graces' first flying experience. A bit of a crowd, it was at least 80% full. The flight took us 55 minutes.. landed in KB and there we were picked up by Baha. Local Kelantan guy who was driving us to the port at Kuala Besut. At the same time they picked up another group of ppl travelling to the same place.

We were then dropped off at the tour agency. Waited for the boat to arrive to send us to Perhentian~! Weird arrangements at the jetty, when the lady was telling us that boat is already full and only can accomodate 4 of us and 1 have to wait for the next boat. A bit absurd la...but have to follow, we didn't want to create any problems and ML, Lorraine n I got on the first boat. NY and Grace came later on the second boat. Sea was very choppy that afternoon.. The speedboat was going fast and our butts hurt from the boat ride.
But when you see the blue seas and blue skies..all the excitement just compensates our hurt arses :P Anyway, we got in Arwana, got us checked in and enjoyed our welcome drink. I remember the guy that dealt with our check in. His name is Robert. You know why? Coz later on, NY and Grace got into a really bad room with wet bedsheet and sandy floor and they had to request for change. Thank goodness the hotel was able to change and also upgrade their rooms too! That's why they got to the dining area late. We got into our superior room and it was quite spacious with a clean toilet! Dropped our bags, changed into something comfy.. It was 12:30pm and lunch was served~! I can say that our overall buffet spread was quite a good one.

This was one of those holidays that I sit and wait for time to pass....not in a rush, so we got time to ourselves. Our first snorkelling trip was at 2:30pm. We had time to sit n wait for that after lunch. Neither of us brought our watches, so we were just walking around.But the feeling of not knowing the time just kills me...seriously, up to now, if I don;t have a watch/handphone, I'll be searching for a clock. I wonder how many of you all feel the same as I do... NY and Lorraine were very happy to see the seas and fishies...so I think they took quite a lot of pics and videos of those fishes that were lingering near the shore. Don't have them with me to show..Maybe can find those on facebook... Anyway...fishies aside, it was time for our first snorkeling trip..and will be explained further in my next post :P