We took bus at Hentian Putra the night before at 10.30pm and there's a bad news from the ticket seller. We bought the ticket about 2 weeks ago and the man said he forgot to key in the system.... causing two extra passenger. Fortunately, we managed to be seated safely. Unfortunately, 2 other people (don't know who) sitting on floor, in a moving bus, for 8 hours! Terrible~ The bus was not stable and stop quite frequently. We reached there about 8am, which is about 3 hours later than our expectation.
21 March we reached Kuala Besut. After breakfast at mamak, we took speedboat to Perhentian Kecil. As expected, the beach is amazing... fine sand, blue and clear sea. We checked in Mohsin Chalet and met a friendly neighbor, Pi, coincidentally he is also from KL and we are going back on same date and time. 12.30pm after having our lunch, we head to Turtle Bay diver HQ, we were sent to another tutle bay dive centre near Mama chalet where all staff and equipment located. After a few months, we are going to gear up and dive again.
Our first dive location is Batu Layar. We bought a underwater camera with RM50 or 27 films. What I remember the most are the 3 big blue humphead fish, and also the feeling of seeing little fish everywhere after long time didn't dive. I have little knowledge about the name of underwater creatures but I like them, no matter they are rare or common. I'm really sorry to Rebecca as I unconsciously took many pictures and left only 9 film for her.
The next dive is D'Lagoon. At first we were following the dive master swimming on the sea bed full of sand. I wonder why because nothing much is seen as compared to corals area. Then the dive master pointed marbled snake eel and panda clownfish which only can be seen on sand. Well done, Alice! After that, we swam around the coral areas and we saw turtle!!!! Sorry Rebecca because no more film for turtle (T.T)
We went for dinner straight after we arrive Long Beach. We were super hungry and ate quite a lot. We went for tea with our neighbors (Pi, Firdaus, Ayib, Ari) at night, they are funny and friendly group of friends. The place are happening but we are too tired to join the campfire? (bonfire there)
The next day, my skin allergy began (T_T) Woke up with itchiness and realised a lot of red spot near my wrist and arm swollen. Haizz..... Early in the morning... 8 am went to dive again. First dive of the day is "The Pinnacles", quite a well known diving spot called temple of the sea. Unfortunately, it became the weirdest diving experience, as we go down 20 minutes and leave. There is 360 degree of blue.... nothing seen due to current and low visibility. Quite sad but still a special experience, first 18m depth for me as well.
Second dive of the day, T3 or Terumbu 3. I like this diving spot as we are surrounded by big rocks and variety of corals in different colours and shape. We saw blue-spotted fanta ray and banded feather star here.
Our last dive of this trip is Shark Point (there is a stone with shark fin shape). No shark is spotted but saw quite a lot of things such as crown-of-thorns starfish, clouded moray eel and titan triggerfish.
Most of the dives we saw angelfish, clownfish, parrotfish, groupers, butterflyfish, cushion sea star.
23 March, we just walk around Perhentian Kecil, eat and drink and eat. We saw Komodo dragon on our way to another side of the island. We were lucky because we did not go for any snorkeling trip or dive that day because keep raining and big waves. 