Wednesday 10 September 2008

An encounter with Whale Shark - Tenggol dive 5-7Sept

It all begins with a ‘char siew bau’ on board...

We started our driving journey at 3am Friday (5th Sept). Everything went smooth and we reached the jetty on time to catch the boat to island around 9am. At around 9.30am like that – boat’s engine sounds weird….oh oh…and slowly its was dead~~ Guess what, we were at no where, no where near mainland nor the island...we were at the middle of the ocean! We've spent close to 3 hours drifting. So...all sort of stupid jokes were heard on board...some being desparately 'called' by biological needs, no choice need to jump down to water to 'answer' the 'call'. Some broke their personal best record for not throwing out on the boat...some really almost throw out...God knows we were boring and sent some jellyfish to entertain us...

After almost 3 hours of drifting, finally we saw the rescue boat from the horizon. But guess what...the rescue boat also got problem..it stopped & go and when its about 400m in front of us, it stopped totally - no fuel!!! wah sai....!! Charlie has to swim the tank of petrol from our boat to the rescue boat...that is really like survivor show man...

Some were asking..how come we so bad luck? Then somehow Charlie told us a story of Tenggol where no pork was allowed on the island + the boat as well...ther were few incidents happened that something bad happened to the person who brought pork or pork based food on to the island. So, back to the initial question, how come we so bad luck? Not just the first boat but the second boat also kena ....well, the answer is Char Siew Pao!! Wai Meng bought a char siew pao to Charlie...and Charlie makan on board....ooohhh....cherh or not?

So...after another hour, we finally reached the island. Everyone quickly grab lunch and do our check up dive. Only 1 dive for me on the 1st day...some went for night dive but i opt out...coz me caught flu, so i guess better rest well and make sure tomorrow can dive lo...

2nd day...all wake up early early morning as we have a date with whale shark...and yes!!! mr whale shark didn't ffk us...yu huu~~~ our mission accomplished for this trip! all were happy except for those with camera...some didn't really get a full glimpse of it...but for me...it was great, breath taking and unforgettable....Something i'm glad for all the dives was that - the current is consider mild and not as strong as how it was last year when i was there...so my dive is quite relax and enjoyable :)

3rd day, we did a morning dive and all were set to back to KL. And....again.....the char siew pao play its row again....since Charlie's boat sent for repair, he managed to get a fishing boat to send us back to mainland....and...coincidently, the fishing boat also hit problem...coz they have mistakenly used a tank of water instead of fuel to run the boat or the fuel the boatman used were mixed with water and subsequently failed the enjin!!! walau eh........3 times with 3 different boat....u think this is so ngam or really bcoz if the char siew pao?? according to wai meng, who bought the char siew pao...its nothing to do with it and he think he is lucky coz get to see whale shark....but for the rest of us...we strongly feel its becoz of the char siew pao...sometimes u cannot stop yourself being superstitious...hahaha.

This time around, we stayed at a much better resort compared to the one we stayed last year. Spacious room with air condition + hot shower...nothing to complain i guess. However, i am not sure whether this is due to the fresh water or the bed sheet...coz rashes all over my body now and i couldn't help not scratching it! arghhh...

Overall....the trip was great despite we continously hit by the boat issues....the company was great, the diving was great....it was fun!

Lesson learnt and finger crossed, no more char siew pao next round....haha :)
and....not to touch jelly fish even though u are quite sure it wont sting....i kena and the sensation is not good... :(

Next month....my wish list is to see the adult whale shark and manta or deveil rays at Pulau Weh....hope our luck will be better by then :P

1 comment:

Unknown said...

We didn't directly reach the island on our rescue boat on 1st day too....the engine died again when we were like 300m away from shore.....and I think it took like 20mins to start it back up.

Really keng the "char siew bao"