Tioman III - Snorkeling

We woke up for a 8am breakfast to go snorkeling the whole day!

The mess on the girls' side of the bedroom :P

All strapped up in snorkeling gear

Our guide took us on a boat ride to visit the Marina Park in order to go snorkeling. Sam got a little seasick on the bumpy ride....

Tracy is all strapped in

But I personally loved the boat ride. It was fun to sit in the boat, and watch the boat create bubbles on the sea. We saw a lot of great scenery too as our tour guide explained to us the different parts of the beach of Tioman Island.

Apparently Tioman Island still largely consist of hilly forestation. Berjaya Resort on Tioman Island has the best beaches, but there are even some parts of the beaches that are privately owned!

Berjaya Resort from a different angle

James Bang 008. Kidding. He told his to call him "Bang" as in short of "Abang", but his real name is Harif.

But first off, he brought us to shop for duty-free stuff at this small kampung place which I've totally forgotten its name. No matter.

At the kampung's port

Everybody poses with liquor except David (yellow pants guy) who poses with mineral water =_=

Liquor there is damn cheap wei!! I bought Bailey's for my family, which only cost a mere RM49.90. Unlike back in KL, I would have to pay more than twice the amount!

But now I am faced with the problem of how am I supposed to hand-carry this huge bottle back on the plane?


After buying all that liquor, we went to Marina Park to snorkel. We stopped by the Marina Museum beforehand to check out the ugly displays since we've already paid for tickets...

Marina Park is sort of like a reserve to maintain sea-life. They shield off a section of the sea just for us to snorkel. No one is allowed to snorkel outside the circle so it got kinda boring as there were no corals at all and sea-life was limited.

Suwen & Zhen got bitten by fishies here while feeding them bread.


While Zhen was snorkeling I took the opportunity to fill his camera with pictures of over-fed aging uncles....

Uncle with pink snorkeling gear! ZHEN!! SEE THE WOMAN IS WEARING CROCS!!! IT IS FOR AUNTIES!!! NYAHAHAHAAHAH!!!!




Zhen & Crocs

Over-fed angmoh uncle

After Marina Park, Harif brought us to the bestest-ever snorkeling experience of my life! (actually I haven' t had many so don't take my credibility for it.)

Coral Island

Snorkeling here is ohmygawdabsolutelyfantabulous if there is such a word. The corals were super super gorgeous, and the sea life was amazing. Harif said if we're lucky we can see sharks (which are vegetarian naturally & turtles). Unfortunately, we had no such luck. We did meet up with a bit of drama during snorkeling with this Bitch.


We were there la la la snorkeling, when our guide Harif could see that Suwen was tired and gave her a float to use. Few minutes later this bitch saw Suwen with the float, grabbed her legs, pulled her down from the float and took it for herself!!! ROOOOOOAARRR!!!!!

I heard this from Sam who would have manually strangled the woman had she had any energy left in her coz she was completely drained from helping out those in our group who could not swim.


I know karma will bite that bitch's black ass back.


Moving on from drama, we came back exhausted and had bbq seafood for dinner.

Suwen likes the smell of bbq fish!