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Last wed,I went to Pulau Sapi with my friends.....damn the camera,it
got stuck so now i have to wait for my roommate to burn the pics my fren
took with her digicam into a cd b4 i can show u guys.....anyway sapi was
great......we went early in the morn(oh yeah,hehe i was suppose to be
studying for maths exam which was last sat....) n met this bunch of
hongkies who were goin pulau too.......they went to pulau manukan which is the biggest of the islands in the tunku abdul rahman park.....the park
consists of 5 islands if i'm not mistaken and sapi is one of them too......haha,my fren said dun call it sapi coz it sounds like cow!!!!!!!! But wat to do...dats the name n i'm too lazy to type pulau sapi instead so bear with me guys.....We went with the hongkies on the same boat though.....wow,sapi was beautiful
man.......the waters were light green n blue.......n u cud see tons of
fish!!!!!!!!!! We went snorkeling for the 1st time n it was so damn
cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We saw lots of 'nemo's and i actually saw my
namesake 'dory' too!!!!!! Or well a dory-lookalike.......hehe.......it
was really cool,we were practically swimming with the fishes n believe
me,there were tons of them and we kept trying to catch them but they were too fast for us n swam away.......millions of corals n anemones too,we swam over this really huge reef n it was so hard to find a footing among the corals n sharp stones....not to mention the fact that when u stop,the fishes actually bite u....yes,they BITE!!!!!!!!! We all got bitten n i have red fang marks in my leg as proof of it......the sun was really hot and the guys who swam in shorts got sunburnt!!!!!!!!! Funny thing was the orang putih on the beach were actually sleeping in the sun n they weren't even tanner but all of us got darker by just a few hours of snorkeling in the sea!!!!!!!!!!!!!The back of the guys were bright red!!!!!!!!!!Haha,we actually had to sapu sunblock on their backs for them n my fren showed me yesterday that his shoulders were still 'burning' from that trip!!!!!

We saw so many types of fish,there was this bright tiny blue florescent
fish n tiny lil bright yellow flourescent fish........i was beginning to
think they were neon lights!!!!!!! There was this group of 6 fish which
looked like sailboats(can't remember their names,was it angel fish????) and they were right at the bottom of the sea on the sand....it looked as if they were 'walking' on the seabed,it was really cool,1 of them was leading like the father fish n the rest were jus well,'walking' behind it......yeah,i remember now,those sailboat-like fishes are the same type of fish as the tank fish leader who helped nemo escape in Finding Nemo,u know the smart fellow who once came from the sea......if u dunno wat i'm talking about well nevermind.....just think sailboats ok......then there was this blue and yellow fish which had really marvelous fins,the edges in circle were yellow and the centre was bright red!!!!!!! There were also these fishes dat had blue,green n yellow lines all over the surface of its body....wow,the coral reef was red n blue....tons of huge ones resembled large rocks n since it was shallow it was really hard to swim over it....actually banged my leg n scraped it on one of these funny things....the seabed at 1 point sloped down
like a hill and the entire 'hillside' was covered with huge
corals!!!!!!!!It was so amazing,never seen a sight like it before......and while swimming with the fishes in the sea,i was actually singing "We belong to the sea" by Aqua.....coudn't help it,it jus came naturally......

We were having so much fun that none of us were hungry can u believe
that.....anyway we had a snack of bread with peanut butter n maggi
snacks and then we were off exploring the island.....sapi is actually a tiny island.....we scrambled over huge rocks and took lots of pics with
funny poses too.....then we saw this trail in the hillside n decided
wat-the-heck we're going jungle trekking.....i wasn't wearing my specs at that time n it was terrible coz the whole trek was green n brown n u never know when it slopes or there's a hidden hole,i was practically scrutinising the whole trek by squinting n it was a really tiring process.....almost slip a couple of times,next time i'm remembering my glasses!!!!!!!!!Anyway the trek was fun,it was winding upwards(quite tiring too) and then downwards n then it looked as if we were lost coz the trek looked unused......we were laughing that we wud have to spend the night there n i said that's good coz then we needn't go sit for our exams.....hehe.....we were winding the path when my fren screamed that there's a biawak n he didn't dare move on,imagine that,he's a guy!!!!!!!!!!Well my fren in front of me didn't have her specs
on either so the both of us jus carried on without er seeing the
so-called biawak.....next thing we knew we were on the other side of the
island!!!!!!!! It was great,the rocks were beautiful and oh gosh,the
waves breaking on the rocks,MAGNIFICENT!!!!!!!!!!And you cud see the long
stretch of deep blue sea against the sky with no land at all......jus flat,sea n sky blending as one.....wow,it looked as if one wud be lost if u sail there coz no land at all,jus the sea,sea and more sea.......we walked back by the beach trail n got tons of tiny seashells which are really beautiful......i now have 2 shell collections,1 from the ODEC beach n now the sapi beach......

It was back to the sea for another round of snorkeling coz last boat
leaves at 4pm.....we had the whole sea to ourselves coz all the
japanese,chinese n hongkong tourists were leaving.....the japanese girls were very beautiful,dey wore really skimpy n sexy bikinis and they were
sooooooooo fair!!!!!!!The cantonese-speaking bunch of tourists were old men n women!!!!!!! It was soooooo funny coz the men
were old n fat n wading in the sea with their shorts.....the old women were more cautious,hanging on to the old men in the sea.....very cute la the scenario.....n there was this filming crew too....but we were too far
to see it coz we were in the sea n they were at the jetty at that
time.....damn,we jus missed Miss HongKong.....the ticketing guy told us that Miss HongKong went to sapi the day b4 and she was still there on the day we went....apparently dey went diving but since we dunno wat she looks like,hmmm,wonder if the filming crew was filming her.....anyway,lots of beautiful tourists were there diving,anyone of them cud have been her....

The bathrooms were terrible(aren't they all...)....running water for
wat 10 seconds n then its trickling out onto the wall n the shower heads are soooooooo high up(are they afraid ppl will steal them???!!!!!) you
can't adjust it.....it was dark n gloomy too n my fren was saying "Dark
Water" which annnoyed us coz it really looked like a scene from Dark Water the japanese movie.....scary man.....i gave up trying to bath,the sea water ruined my hair n completely tangled it.....just washed the sand off myself n spent ages combing the hair!!!!!!!!!My fren was lucky,her's had enough water for her to bath b4 it conked out too.....the guys were simply hopeless,shouting outside the girl's bathrooms for shower foam,shampoo n whatnot.....
We left finally,how sad,wanted to swim somemore.....we sat the same
boat with the hongkie tourists earlier n we got to see manukan island as the boatmen went to fetch them,the water there is deeper n the sand more
beautiful.....oh yea,we invited them to join us for dinner,it was great,i
cudn't speak good cantonese so we were conversing in mandarin while all
my frens were babbling away in perfect cantonese with them.....we belanja
them minum so they belanja us makan....we ate at this seaside gerai....tons of gerai there,like night market only.....jus choose a stall n order wat u want......i once bought ikan bakar there n it was delicious......ate meehun goreng dat nite n it sucked....oh well,win some lose some.....they were telling us all bout hongkong n we were talking bout msia to them....haha,talk about tourist-info-exchange!!!!!!!! Cool man!!!!!!!!