a quick dip
It's has been almost a year since I last went on a leisure dive trip.So after much persuation from Yong, we went to Aur with wetworks scuba for a quick weekend getaway.
From bottom left: Michele, William (Inst.), Roslind, Me, Yong, Caleb and behind, Ben, Jason (Inst.)... And Fynn (DM), who is not in the picture, had went back to chill out on the island instead.
With William teaching the advance ladies, Jason and Fynn teaching the open water boys, we, the leisure divers were left to dive on our own... :-D
The dives are pretty good.
Visibility was from ~50ft - 30ft, ~10ft night-time, there's just lots to see...Day one seems to be the best dive day for us. Spotting at least 5 nudibranches, huge yellowfin trevalley, turtle, pufferfish, baby yellow boxfish, tons of shrimps, filefish, baby sweetlips, batfish, rabbit fishes, a school of baby barracudas and lots more! With no one stirring up the silt and wracking everything, Yong and I had a great time drifting and looking around.
I went down with a dummy camera that I got for my birthday and tried taking some shots. Silly me only used it on the third dive - that's in the evening when the sun is about to knock-off! Augh... So I didn't really do a good job
of taking some nice shots to present to the one that gave me the camera. Anyway, I can't really focus on small stuff and there's no flash on the unit, so I ended up with lots of blurred shots. But I really like the picture of Yong doing the gigantic giant strike - leaping off the boat in style...Day two was "challenging" as we reach 105ft on our first dive that day. Hit the ceiling, and went up to do a hang dive (safty stop), but Yong had forgotten to release his "lazy chain" on his DSMB and went up to the surface. Being a very good buddy, I was trying to pull him down but, alas, I was lifted up instead. So after abit of struggle, as our DSMBs began to entangle together, we went down to do our safty stop again and managed to silent off the
screaming dive computer...I suppose what made the trip enjoyable, was really the company of people that I went with. Ros was crazy over the sport. I bet that she was the one that got Caleb and Ben into this. And my goodness, they are only a couple of years older the my Bro... Am I really that old already? Jason, Fynn and William seem to make a very good team. With each having their own specialty and unique character, they have indefinatley striked a cord amongst us and made us all feel at ease travelling with them. Michele, well, I felt that she wasn't really with the group, but I don't really blame her, afterall, it can be tough going on a trip with an ex-boyfriend...
Along the way home, the mini bus driver got into a tiny accident. It was cold and drizzling... And so, we went to a nearby coffeeshop and ate prata, mutton soup, otah and milk tea instead while waiting for the two parties to settle their issue. The delay had cost us a sumptuous seafood dinner. However, the prata and mutton soup were cheap and good. Then again, any warm food served on a cold day is good food! Ahhh...So... All in all, it had been a great weekend.
The dip was too short, but it will do for now...
[Special thanks to Ros & Michele for the photos]
Kudoos to all my crazy diving friends out there! :O)
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Hee donno about diving, nor fish, save that I like to eat seafood caught off Sedili (after Desaru before Mersing) and that..
Your bikini nice and you look great in it!!
Your bikini nice and you look great in it!!
wahahhaha... trying to humour me rite, you??? Such a small picture, you can tell that it's nice... wahhaha...
I'm game for cheap seafood. Bring it on anytime! lol :O)
I'm game for cheap seafood. Bring it on anytime! lol :O)
Oh! Did I tell you that I bump into Dorothy? wahhaha... we were staying at the same resort! :D
Bumped into a couple of other old friends there too... *Nice feeling*
Bumped into a couple of other old friends there too... *Nice feeling*
I knew she was going diving, and that it was the same time, but that was about it. Cool!
Cheap seafood! Def cheap! But I only know how to get there by parents' car cos they drive there from their house in JB all the time.
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Cheap seafood! Def cheap! But I only know how to get there by parents' car cos they drive there from their house in JB all the time.
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