Dayang Weekend
Original Post Date : October 16, 2005
Dayang (14-16 Oct)
Finally! After being postponed few times, we made it.
Although minus the gang, we couldn’t wait for better opportunity. Friday night, we gathered at Joshua’s shop and met another groups. This time, we were minority, so we needed sometime to know other people.
Around 9.30 pm, we departed to Mersing jetty. Reached there at 1 am, and we needed to wait until around 3 am for other operator who shared the same boat. At first, tried to catch some sleep in the jetty, but moved to the boat later. It wasn’t a really good sleep, cramped and noisy, but still managed to rest.
Reached Dayang at 8 am, transferred to Aur, opposite island and moved all the gears to a smaller boat, consisted of our group only. Had some breakfast and off we went for the first dive.
The cooling wind and clear water woke us up. For the fifth time, we were quite familiar with the dive sites, things we would see etc. Although there were many rumors about sighting of exotic Manta Ray, we didn’t hope much, our intention was only to get into water.
The visibility was considered good, surface was calm, water was clear and blue, and the most important, I could recover the feeling of flying, weightless and soundless. It’s a beautiful beautiful feeling worth all the travel and time. Seeing beautiful fish are bonus, but getting into water itself had become some kind of calming therapy for me, I can fly!
We saw Napoleon humphead, the trademark of Dayang, I also saw a small family of them swimming together. We saw usual nudibranches, those pretty colorful invertebrates, this time we saw quite a lot of purple and spiky ones, plus the ordinary black with white spike, but this time they have orange and green version.
Snails, and hermit crabs, Hubby watching one of them busy having its lunch.
Something we had never seen before in Dayang, box fish, this yellow boxy and jutex fish was incredibly cute, they were small, only a size of my fist, with very busy tiny tails. They have bright yellow color and black polka dot. The funniest things were their faces and behaviors. Obviously, they were not smiley, but kind of sangar wannabe and they were curious. They scared of you, but they kept peeping time and again because they were curious. So we just stayed there and watching while they were busy going up and down behind a rock to watch, hide, watch, hide again. Kekekkeke… Hilarious. :)
Saw a small little cuttlefish, moray eels, school of yellowtail barracuda, parrotfish, a huge triggerfish circling around hoping to get some bites, dead tiny crab, tiny sea cucumber (like the size we used for cooking), and usual huge and many kinds of them everywhere.
Colorful Christmas tree, these Christmas tree are common in West Malaysia, but I found that for some tourist, they were quite impressive with these. So, it’s maybe one kind of soft coral, tiny and shaped exactly like Christmas tree; they have many different colors, and grow on the top of hard corals. They will shrink themselves into the hole when approached.
And of course, what I like about short weekend trip, we can always find lots of nemos. One anemone could house family of nemos, big and small. The great thing about nemo, they always able to look straight to your face or camera. And it’s always entertaining to see them dancing with the anemone, we like to fan the anemone slowly with our hand and watch them running out and in.
On the second day, the current was very strong. When we went down on the first dive, I saw everyone was like flying around, and soon I had to grab on the rock to avoid being drift away. So, we were holding horizontally because we were swept by the strong current, waiting for others to decent. It was tough and funny, imagine a bunch of us, holding to dear life, while our body and legs were flapping behind, I was carried away few times, but managed to swim back, until now, we still feel the pain on the fingertips, aches on the ankles and legs for fining.
We made some new friends and had good chats on Saturday night while enjoying BBQ dinner, we turned in quite early while some stayed late for beers. Almost lost my slippers. We ate dinner on the beach, with sand on our feet. As usual, I never kept my feet calm, so I dug and buried and made pattern in the sand unconsciously. When we left for transfer to the opposite island, Hubby asked, “Where are your slippers?” Then I realized I was walking footless and I left my slippers on the island, so I had to run back and gosh, they already re-arranged the table (we united three tables together for the big group) and I lost the position of my seat (that’s how bad my navigation skill), and worst, I remembered burying it under the sand! Lucky I found half, and the guy who tended the resort helped me find another. Lucky….how would I make it back to town slipperless?
It was a good Sunday morning, woke up feeling fresh and brushed teeth in the deck while looking at the ocean, hearing the waving leaves and the singing birds. It feels good and a must to be out of town once in a while. It rained in between the second day dive, and after lunch, we headed home.
Unlike the usual hot day, we had the nice cooling weather; it helped us sleep better in the boat. It was jam in the immigration, so we had a long queue and finally made it back to home around 11.30 pm, washed up all the gears, unpacked, showered and had a dead-like sleep.
Dayang (14-16 Oct)
Finally! After being postponed few times, we made it.
Although minus the gang, we couldn’t wait for better opportunity. Friday night, we gathered at Joshua’s shop and met another groups. This time, we were minority, so we needed sometime to know other people.
Around 9.30 pm, we departed to Mersing jetty. Reached there at 1 am, and we needed to wait until around 3 am for other operator who shared the same boat. At first, tried to catch some sleep in the jetty, but moved to the boat later. It wasn’t a really good sleep, cramped and noisy, but still managed to rest.
Reached Dayang at 8 am, transferred to Aur, opposite island and moved all the gears to a smaller boat, consisted of our group only. Had some breakfast and off we went for the first dive.
The cooling wind and clear water woke us up. For the fifth time, we were quite familiar with the dive sites, things we would see etc. Although there were many rumors about sighting of exotic Manta Ray, we didn’t hope much, our intention was only to get into water.
The visibility was considered good, surface was calm, water was clear and blue, and the most important, I could recover the feeling of flying, weightless and soundless. It’s a beautiful beautiful feeling worth all the travel and time. Seeing beautiful fish are bonus, but getting into water itself had become some kind of calming therapy for me, I can fly!
We saw Napoleon humphead, the trademark of Dayang, I also saw a small family of them swimming together. We saw usual nudibranches, those pretty colorful invertebrates, this time we saw quite a lot of purple and spiky ones, plus the ordinary black with white spike, but this time they have orange and green version.
Snails, and hermit crabs, Hubby watching one of them busy having its lunch.
Something we had never seen before in Dayang, box fish, this yellow boxy and jutex fish was incredibly cute, they were small, only a size of my fist, with very busy tiny tails. They have bright yellow color and black polka dot. The funniest things were their faces and behaviors. Obviously, they were not smiley, but kind of sangar wannabe and they were curious. They scared of you, but they kept peeping time and again because they were curious. So we just stayed there and watching while they were busy going up and down behind a rock to watch, hide, watch, hide again. Kekekkeke… Hilarious. :)
Saw a small little cuttlefish, moray eels, school of yellowtail barracuda, parrotfish, a huge triggerfish circling around hoping to get some bites, dead tiny crab, tiny sea cucumber (like the size we used for cooking), and usual huge and many kinds of them everywhere.
Colorful Christmas tree, these Christmas tree are common in West Malaysia, but I found that for some tourist, they were quite impressive with these. So, it’s maybe one kind of soft coral, tiny and shaped exactly like Christmas tree; they have many different colors, and grow on the top of hard corals. They will shrink themselves into the hole when approached.
And of course, what I like about short weekend trip, we can always find lots of nemos. One anemone could house family of nemos, big and small. The great thing about nemo, they always able to look straight to your face or camera. And it’s always entertaining to see them dancing with the anemone, we like to fan the anemone slowly with our hand and watch them running out and in.
On the second day, the current was very strong. When we went down on the first dive, I saw everyone was like flying around, and soon I had to grab on the rock to avoid being drift away. So, we were holding horizontally because we were swept by the strong current, waiting for others to decent. It was tough and funny, imagine a bunch of us, holding to dear life, while our body and legs were flapping behind, I was carried away few times, but managed to swim back, until now, we still feel the pain on the fingertips, aches on the ankles and legs for fining.
We made some new friends and had good chats on Saturday night while enjoying BBQ dinner, we turned in quite early while some stayed late for beers. Almost lost my slippers. We ate dinner on the beach, with sand on our feet. As usual, I never kept my feet calm, so I dug and buried and made pattern in the sand unconsciously. When we left for transfer to the opposite island, Hubby asked, “Where are your slippers?” Then I realized I was walking footless and I left my slippers on the island, so I had to run back and gosh, they already re-arranged the table (we united three tables together for the big group) and I lost the position of my seat (that’s how bad my navigation skill), and worst, I remembered burying it under the sand! Lucky I found half, and the guy who tended the resort helped me find another. Lucky….how would I make it back to town slipperless?
It was a good Sunday morning, woke up feeling fresh and brushed teeth in the deck while looking at the ocean, hearing the waving leaves and the singing birds. It feels good and a must to be out of town once in a while. It rained in between the second day dive, and after lunch, we headed home.
Unlike the usual hot day, we had the nice cooling weather; it helped us sleep better in the boat. It was jam in the immigration, so we had a long queue and finally made it back to home around 11.30 pm, washed up all the gears, unpacked, showered and had a dead-like sleep.
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