As I was eating breakfast this morning, a few of the staff walked by with a wheel barrow full of fish. There was a very large barracuda amongst them. Her belly was swollen and full of eggs and she had huge, sharp, blood covered teeth. When I lifted her she must have weighed about 50 [...]
Archive > April 1997
Hike Around the Island
I didn’t sleep very well last night. I’ve learned a very important lesson: don’t give a young Malaysian a beer, a guitar and a Karaoke machine because he spends the entire night playing the same notes and wailing loudly like he’s Elvis Presley. The owners D’lagoon left the “boys” in charge of the restaurant for [...]
Turtle Beach
Yet another amazing day at the beach. Mari, Andrew and I lounged all day at the Turtle Beach. No one else came by. First we snorkelled in the Turtle Lagoon then we lay in the sun. We watched a very large eagle fly around us and looked for sharks in the water near the very [...]
Tropical Fish
My hotel has a fish reference book available to guests: Reef Fishes of the World by Ewald Lieske and Robert Myers. This book is handy because I can flip through it after snorkeling excursions and see which fish I encountered while snorkeling. It is difficult to pinpoint the exact fish because there are so many [...]
Perhentian Paradise
I have reached paradise. So far I have read a book, lounged in a hammock, witnessed a turtle lay its eggs, snorkeled in the ocean, and looked at big neon fish underwater. The turtle part troubled me a bit. Our hotel manager walked around the complex and started knocking on doors to let us all [...]
