June 18, 2001 - Monday - Perhentian Islands, Malaysia
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| Jamie practicing his fireball twirls |
The day started lazily as we all got breakfast at about 11. Louise's friends, Jamie and Kathy joined us and by the time we all got ready to go across the island to Coral Bay, it was after 1:00 already. Jamie at first wanted to go diving but later, he decided to join us.
The cross-island trek was interesting - there were lot of lush rain forest and little critters all around. We saw large spiders, small and medium lizards, and even a snake. It's too bad that now I look back at it that I didn't spend more time exploring the island. There's always next time but by that time, it might be spoilt already.
Anyway, we went across to Coral Bay and walked 5 more minutes north to Golden Beach to snorkel. We snorkeled for a while, about two hours and by that time, I was fairly tired. I saw these gigantic parrot fish that was taking big chunks out of the dead coral near the shore. I was the only one without fins so I came back on the beach to rest for a while.
The others came back eventually and we went back to Coral Beach to find something to eat. We went back to Long Beach and had lunch there. It took about an hour for my lunch to arrive. Others didn't do too much better. It seems that they forgotten my order, just like what they did to Lawrence last night, except it was a different restaurant. We decided to eat at our cottage from that point on because the food was really good there already and it didn't take that much time for them to prepare.
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| Kathy, Jamie, Louise, and Lawrence |
After our late afternoon meal, we went back on Long Beach and I swam with Kathy and Jamie for a while. Lawrence eventually joined us for a long session of Frisbee toss. At dinner, they showed a movie that night - Finding Forrester, which was OK, predictable, and not too exciting.
The dinner however was really good even though I still wasn't that hungry. I had some excellent BBQ King fish with peanut sauce while watching the movie. Everyone pretty much left after the movie and Louise, Lawrence and I chatted outside of our chalet until 1.
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