Monday, April 9, 2007

Of Coral Cuts and UV Burns

Redang is just as HOT as ever. The sun there is lethal man. I'm absolutely roasted from just less than an hour's baking. Nevermind that I forgot to put tanning oil and sunblock at least 15 minutes b4 tanning..

The weekend dive was fun. Minus the puking in the sea from the choppy water; the torturous walk to and fro the resort to the beach with our FULL equipment for EVERY dive. *fumez* ; the overcrowded and litter-strewn beach over a good friday weekend. Everything else was GREAT!

Sighted:
- Sea Turtles
- Shark1 .... hehe no i'm kidding.. it was more like this: Shark 2
Only I saw the shark. Everyone else was looking elsewhere. The thing about being underwater is you can't open your mouth to scream "Shark!!". I got so excited my arms were flailing around in the water desperately trying to get attention and water got into my mask but to no avail. By the time my buddy took notice it had shot by so fast I'm beginning to wonder now if it was a ghost shark...
- huge stingray
it was like.. huge lah.. I could imagine myself cuddling under it and having a good nap.. *snorez*
- Puffer Fish
These are probably my favourite fish after Nemo lah. They're like underwater ETs with huge doe eyes, cruising along in the shadows of the reef.. unique. me likey..
- Clownfish (aka Nemo)
They're soo cute.. I sometimes just wanna scoop the baby ones up from their cushy homes n smuggle them home using my mask.. Well I can't do that. So the next best thing to do is to make it a point to tickle every Nemo i see while searching for bigger fish..
- Yellow Boxfish
The two I saw were re-enacting a bollywood courtship scene when I spotted them..
- Titan Triggerfish
Tot this was some thin silvery fish like a baracuda.. I was complaining that I din see it when everyone else did. Now that I googled it, I did see it afterall! It was bz chomping away on the corals n you can actually hear them biting the pieces off... scary.
- Flying Fish
- n many many more fishies..

Some pics from my previous trip in 2003:




N the pics for this trip:
Shopaholics unite!

Supper. Red with "his coconut-high look"


Compare to pic from 2003 trip above. Where did the rocks go??

Mr and Mrs Sunset Bay



picture perfect!

Andy n his still-in-Redang divesuit

Lounging on the beach at night listening to Vanessa Paradis


Appropriate office laptop wallpaper

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