Here we go again to any of you who are still following the blog, I hope you are and that you are enjoying it.
So we left the Cameron Highlands after smashing it in 2.5 days, boarded a minibus with our new friends Nick and Kate, plugged ourselves into our ipods and beasted it over to the North East side of Malaysia. We were only slightly panicked by the fact that we hadn't booked accomodation and that there was no cash machines and everything was going to be expensive on the islands but everything has worked out for us so far so sod it! After roasting to death in the minibus we arrived in some utter joke of a place! Seriously the dock was a hole and we still hadn't got any accomodation! We all bundled into a small motor boat and What on Earth!!! - we were handed life jackets, in SE Asia!!! So we put them on thinking 'how weird'! We soon realised why we had them as the 30 trip across to the islands was seriously rough and on a number of occasions we had the entire boat with it 20 passages airborn!! We were loving it, until, Adrian and my seat came loose and we were ejected into the air free fall and bouncing around like rag dolls trying to fix it, did the driver slow down, did he ****! Enventually the maddnessd was over and we made it to the idsland - it was beautiful!
It didn't take long to walk down the beach find a resort to stay in that was half that of Nick and Kates and job done, apart from the fact that our room was up about 100 very poorly built wooden stairs with exposed nails and some seriously worrying creeks! Still we've pulled it off again and the view was amazing!
Our first evening consisted of us going in search of some night life?! Not much going on unfortunately after we'd trversed the pitch black pathway to the other side of the island and found the 2 bars empty we were a bit worried about it being my birthday tomorrow! But we were soon joined by Nick and Kate and then everyone seemed to appear - amazing! We got suitably merry, diabloed good and even got some cake for my birthday?!
The next day was my birthday - hooray, getting old - wonderful. But who can say they went scuba diving on a sunken Cargo Ship in the Perintian Islands on their 24th? Man it was amazing - best dive ever, saw so many different fish and all the rigging etc was epic, loved if, totally stoked! We then went Snorkelling, as if we'd not had enough, and spotted a turtle swimming around! Amazing! That night our amazingly friendly french neighbours offered us an apperetif as we shared stories of the 'GeCkoS!', rats and massive lizards we share the rooms with! We then treated ourselves to a fish BBQ in which I had Swordfish! We then went to Nick and Kates for some drinking games and they had got me some Nips and a card - legends. After numerous rounds of drink while you think we crossed over to the other beach again and enjoyed some reggae music and some rum, what and awesome night and what a pair of absolute legends Nick and Kate are!
The next day was as amazing as it could be! We went on a day long snorkelling tour of the islands starting with the lighthouse which had some amazing reef and some unbelievable fish not to mentaion a 10m high lighthouse which our tour guide scaled and hero-dived off. Of course I was soon up there and plumetting to my doom - what a rush! We eventually got Adrian up there and got a vid of us jumping off! Awesome - adrenaline flowing we went to the next stop were we snorkelled with black tip reef sharks - as you do! Amazing! After a narrow miss with an enormous trigger fish we were back in the boat, went for lunch and then over to Turtle Bay were what elese do you do but snorkel with enormous turtles swim alongside them and I even tried my hand and Turtle surfing! Last stop was at Romantic Bay where we saw sting rays and another beautiful beach before returning to the resort - what an amazing experience! We then went over to the otherside again which was a new experience after break my brothers flip flop and trying to go barefoot not knowing the termits can bite straight through the soles of my feet and palm of my hand drawing bloody! :-(! This was not helped by the fact that our only light source was my epilepsy inducing mobile flash light!
Bitten by the diving bug we went for another scuba dive the day after to another wreck, this was awesome but unfortunately the current was really strong so we ended up doing our first drift dive which was mental. We saw sea horses and I some how managed to run out of air, but no fear, buddy assisted ascent and what another awesome experience! That night we said our goodbyes to Nick and Kate with the agreement to meet them in Sydney where they were planning on working for the next 2 years!
We left the Perentians on a much calmer day and were back on the road in no time no looking forward to the insane distance we needed to cover to get to Singapore for our flight to Oz!
So we left the Cameron Highlands after smashing it in 2.5 days, boarded a minibus with our new friends Nick and Kate, plugged ourselves into our ipods and beasted it over to the North East side of Malaysia. We were only slightly panicked by the fact that we hadn't booked accomodation and that there was no cash machines and everything was going to be expensive on the islands but everything has worked out for us so far so sod it! After roasting to death in the minibus we arrived in some utter joke of a place! Seriously the dock was a hole and we still hadn't got any accomodation! We all bundled into a small motor boat and What on Earth!!! - we were handed life jackets, in SE Asia!!! So we put them on thinking 'how weird'! We soon realised why we had them as the 30 trip across to the islands was seriously rough and on a number of occasions we had the entire boat with it 20 passages airborn!! We were loving it, until, Adrian and my seat came loose and we were ejected into the air free fall and bouncing around like rag dolls trying to fix it, did the driver slow down, did he ****! Enventually the maddnessd was over and we made it to the idsland - it was beautiful!
It didn't take long to walk down the beach find a resort to stay in that was half that of Nick and Kates and job done, apart from the fact that our room was up about 100 very poorly built wooden stairs with exposed nails and some seriously worrying creeks! Still we've pulled it off again and the view was amazing!Our first evening consisted of us going in search of some night life?! Not much going on unfortunately after we'd trversed the pitch black pathway to the other side of the island and found the 2 bars empty we were a bit worried about it being my birthday tomorrow! But we were soon joined by Nick and Kate and then everyone seemed to appear - amazing! We got suitably merry, diabloed good and even got some cake for my birthday?!
The next day was my birthday - hooray, getting old - wonderful. But who can say they went scuba diving on a sunken Cargo Ship in the Perintian Islands on their 24th? Man it was amazing - best dive ever, saw so many different fish and all the rigging etc was epic, loved if, totally stoked! We then went Snorkelling, as if we'd not had enough, and spotted a turtle swimming around! Amazing! That night our amazingly friendly french neighbours offered us an apperetif as we shared stories of the 'GeCkoS!', rats and massive lizards we share the rooms with! We then treated ourselves to a fish BBQ in which I had Swordfish! We then went to Nick and Kates for some drinking games and they had got me some Nips and a card - legends. After numerous rounds of drink while you think we crossed over to the other beach again and enjoyed some reggae music and some rum, what and awesome night and what a pair of absolute legends Nick and Kate are!
The next day was as amazing as it could be! We went on a day long snorkelling tour of the islands starting with the lighthouse which had some amazing reef and some unbelievable fish not to mentaion a 10m high lighthouse which our tour guide scaled and hero-dived off. Of course I was soon up there and plumetting to my doom - what a rush! We eventually got Adrian up there and got a vid of us jumping off! Awesome - adrenaline flowing we went to the next stop were we snorkelled with black tip reef sharks - as you do! Amazing! After a narrow miss with an enormous trigger fish we were back in the boat, went for lunch and then over to Turtle Bay were what elese do you do but snorkel with enormous turtles swim alongside them and I even tried my hand and Turtle surfing! Last stop was at Romantic Bay where we saw sting rays and another beautiful beach before returning to the resort - what an amazing experience! We then went over to the otherside again which was a new experience after break my brothers flip flop and trying to go barefoot not knowing the termits can bite straight through the soles of my feet and palm of my hand drawing bloody! :-(! This was not helped by the fact that our only light source was my epilepsy inducing mobile flash light!
Bitten by the diving bug we went for another scuba dive the day after to another wreck, this was awesome but unfortunately the current was really strong so we ended up doing our first drift dive which was mental. We saw sea horses and I some how managed to run out of air, but no fear, buddy assisted ascent and what another awesome experience! That night we said our goodbyes to Nick and Kate with the agreement to meet them in Sydney where they were planning on working for the next 2 years!
We left the Perentians on a much calmer day and were back on the road in no time no looking forward to the insane distance we needed to cover to get to Singapore for our flight to Oz!
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