Perhentian Islands - Snorkeling at D'Lagoon...
We talked to Gemma and Kimbell about taking a short boat ride to D'Lagoon to do some snorkeling and we all decided to do it. We negotiated a group rate with a small boat captain, about $3.50 each, to take us top D'Lagoon and pick us up later in the day.
D'Lagoon has one resort and a small beach tucked in between the rocks, reefs and jungle. It's quite a nice area. We started snorkeling and found some deep water and great clarity! There was a very large titan trigger fish moving the coral around with it's mouth in order to get at crabs and other things to eat. I enlisted John to attempt to take a picture of it, as I had two previous encounters with titan triggers who had tried to attack me. At that particular time I wasn't wearing any swim fins to fend it off with. I also saw a black tipped reef shark. They're quite striking, but difficult to take a picture of because they move so fast.
Later we took a 10-minute hike through the jungle to Turtle beach. This is supposed to be where a lot of the turtles lay their eggs. We couldn't figure how the turtles managed to get onto beach because the shallows were strewn with boulders that we had trouble getting around. The water clarity wasn't very good, the seas were a bit rough and we didn't see any turtles. Other than that, it was great.
We hiked back to D'Lagoon and our trusty boat captain showed up exactly at the time we had agreed on.
Dinner was a humorous event in that all of us (Kimbell, Gemma, John and I) had run short of Malay currency. We ordered a bizarre assortment of inexpensive dishes and shared them, then recalculated and figured out what other cheap dishes we could get. It was actually quite a lot of fun and on our last day we discovered some things we really liked but hadn't tried yet.
Sea Creature Sightings:
Titan Trigger fish
Black Tipped Reef Sharks
We talked to Gemma and Kimbell about taking a short boat ride to D'Lagoon to do some snorkeling and we all decided to do it. We negotiated a group rate with a small boat captain, about $3.50 each, to take us top D'Lagoon and pick us up later in the day.
D'Lagoon has one resort and a small beach tucked in between the rocks, reefs and jungle. It's quite a nice area. We started snorkeling and found some deep water and great clarity! There was a very large titan trigger fish moving the coral around with it's mouth in order to get at crabs and other things to eat. I enlisted John to attempt to take a picture of it, as I had two previous encounters with titan triggers who had tried to attack me. At that particular time I wasn't wearing any swim fins to fend it off with. I also saw a black tipped reef shark. They're quite striking, but difficult to take a picture of because they move so fast.
Later we took a 10-minute hike through the jungle to Turtle beach. This is supposed to be where a lot of the turtles lay their eggs. We couldn't figure how the turtles managed to get onto beach because the shallows were strewn with boulders that we had trouble getting around. The water clarity wasn't very good, the seas were a bit rough and we didn't see any turtles. Other than that, it was great.
We hiked back to D'Lagoon and our trusty boat captain showed up exactly at the time we had agreed on.
Dinner was a humorous event in that all of us (Kimbell, Gemma, John and I) had run short of Malay currency. We ordered a bizarre assortment of inexpensive dishes and shared them, then recalculated and figured out what other cheap dishes we could get. It was actually quite a lot of fun and on our last day we discovered some things we really liked but hadn't tried yet.
Sea Creature Sightings:
Titan Trigger fish
Black Tipped Reef Sharks
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