Author Topic: SIP #6 - 'Not the umbrella!': Redang Kalong, Redang ~ 270608-290608 (Read 5068 times)

miezegreat · « **on:** June 30, 2008, 09:12:56 PM »

Just for starters...

Bijan: Anas! Put me down!

evelynwg85 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 01, 2008, 12:15:50 AM »

aiyoh, ummi ah...plz...faster come out more...more more more, i want more more more...reports, pictures....etc...

sheik · « **Reply #2 on:** July 01, 2008, 05:24:22 AM »

well, while we all wait for Ummi with her detail dive report; Scubabunny and Carmen on the survey results

, here's some pictorial report.

Our journey begins with:

The driver from Mumbai.
Notice the:
1. bizarre purple colored Native-American-Indian-ostrich-feather charm hanging on his rear view mirror. This charm has attracted the local medicine man* and blessed our journey (to reach the Enlightenment).
2. crotch light; or rather the light coming out from his crotch.
3. Arnold Palmer's umbrella on top left corner. I guess this is why Ummi titled this report: Not the Umbrella!

A footnote (*)
There will be a story on The local medicine man blessing the truck

One* of the passengers (with some weird pop-up pillows) looking thru the window. She does only gaze, maze and laze while the sun rises on the Terengganu coastline.
A footnote (*)
This passenger does nothing along the journey but sleeping and waking up smiling. No words uttered.

Our room at Redang Kalong. Nice, spacious, and airy.
Notice:
1. the blue-colored towels for both couple: Bijan and DP
2. Bijan has reached some level of 'height' while lying on his bed. DP managed to shy away from the frame.

JD · « **Reply #3 on:** July 01, 2008, 09:17:44 AM »

This passenger does nothing along the journey but sleeping and waking up smiling. No words uttered.

How very the true one.....!

Yan · « **Reply #4 on:** July 01, 2008, 09:32:41 AM »

Our room at Redang Kalong. Nice, spacious, and airy.
Notice:
1. the blue-colored towels for both couple: Bijan and DP
2. Bijan has reached some level of 'height' while lying on his bed. DP managed to shy away from the frame.
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bijan must be quite ~~sexcited~~....excited

evelynwg85 · « **Reply #5 on:** July 01, 2008, 11:37:32 AM »

Quote from: RoCKET on July 01, 2008, 09:32:41 AM

Our room at Redang Kalong. Nice, spacious, and airy.
Notice:
1. the blue-colored towels for both couple: Bijan and DP
2. Bijan has reached some level of 'height' while lying on his bed. DP managed to shy away from the frame.

bijan must be quite ~~sexcited~~....excited
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excited in term of?i saw something which quite "suspicious" in this picture leh...

Cher · « **Reply #6 on:** July 01, 2008, 12:40:13 PM »

Quote from: miezegreat on June 30, 2008, 09:12:56 PM

Just for starters...

Bijan: Anas! Put me down!

Hahhaha comel! Thank you for putting a smile on my face

dp · « **Reply #7 on:** July 01, 2008, 03:03:14 PM »

Quote from: evelynwg85 on July 01, 2008, 11:37:32 AM

Quote from: RoCKET on July 01, 2008, 09:32:41 AM

Our room at Redang Kalong. Nice, spacious, and airy.
Notice:
1. the blue-colored towels for both couple: Bijan and DP
2. Bijan has reached some level of 'height' while lying on his bed. DP managed to shy away from the frame.

bijan must be quite ~~sexcited~~....excited

excited in term of?i saw something which quite "suspicious" in this picture leh...

just makes u wonder what it was that he was looking at the psp screen....

mocha · « **Reply #8 on:** July 01, 2008, 05:05:57 PM »

Quote from: Cher on July 01, 2008, 12:40:13 PM

Quote from: miezegreat on June 30, 2008, 09:12:56 PM
Just for starters...

Bijan: Anas! Put me down!

Hahhaha comel! Thank you for putting a smile on my face

kanak kanak riang ribena... and please pick someone your size la... sheik must be thinking he is as slim as bijan!

miezegreat · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2008, 06:11:17 PM »

Well, since Sheik is kinda tied up with the MIDE pre-works and all, let me continue and finish the report.

The Mumbai driver picked up Sheik, Bijan and I, and left KL around 11.30pm. Scuba Bunny, Carmen & Julian left earlier while Bajaulaut and wifey were already at Merang.

So, after change of drivers* and a few stops (we actually stayed a bit and watched Spain vs Russia 3-0 and final quarter of Saving Private Ryan), we finally reached KT.

*This driver thot he was in Sepang and main2 corner one. I couldn’t sleep and was holding on the seat for dear life. And so were DP & Bijan.

Sunrise

.......

Oh, about the ‘blessing’.

About 7.45 am, all hungry and looking for a good nasi dagang stall. We spotted one at the other side of the road (lots of customers, so the place should be good) and we also noticed an old man (local medicine man, eh?) by the roadside.
Well, we thot that he was going to cross the road – we did a u turn to park the Ranger and he stopped us. Then, he slowly touched and suddenly kissed or as Sheik said, ‘blessed’ Lady Boss, Shafi’s Ranger.
Alright, something is definitely not right here. ‘Our journey is blessed by the medicine man!’ Yeah right.
The next thing we know, one of the restaurant’s staff walked to him and seriously whacked him on the head! Pity the old man.
As for the nasi dagang, there were weird looks on a couple of faces – luckily I ate the roti.

We met up with the others later at the jetty and left for Redang Kalong at 9.00am.

Day 1

Dive #1 - Turtle Bay or (Chagar Utan)

Fish: DP & Miezegreat
Invert: Bijan & Bajaulaut
Substrates: Scuba Bunny & Carmen
Impacts: Sheik & Julian

Time in: 11.27am
Bottom time: 53 mins
Max depth: 12.5m
Avg depth: 9.4m
Viz: 10m
Temperature: 29 Celcius

Results - Mostly hard coral and rocks, lotsa snappers (we counted 1400 ekors at the transect line only)
Other Stuffs - White tip shark, green turtle, triggerfish, a few moorish idols

Dive #2 - Marine Park (Jetty Dive)

Fish: Bajaulaut & Bijan
Inverts: Sheik & Carmen
Substrates: DP & Miezegreat
Impacts: Scuba Bunny & Julian

Time in: 2.58pm
Bottom time: 66 mins
Max depth: 6.4m
Avg depth: 4.8m
Viz: 5-10m
Temperature: 29 Celcius

Results - 60% Rubble, big amount of rubbish and a few pvc structures but not much corals grown on it. This is at THE marine park, surprise, surprise!
Other Stuffs - Triggerfish, surgeon fish

When we surfaced, there was a large group of people in orange jackets looking at us at the jetty. Did we do a grand surface? Or were they all thinking why the heck are divers diving under the jetty? … Nah, they were just waiting for their boats

No Muppet Moments. Good.

After the dives, we cleaned up and rested. DP has already pengsan-ed on the bed and missed the BBQ dinner. Sheik wanted do a photography session, but we were all tired.

Sheik caught in a batik

All went to bed early and it took me like 5 minutes to sleep bcoz of someone’s* karaoke-ing downstairs.

*One of us – who eh?

zzzzzzzzzzzzz

miezegreat · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2008, 06:13:39 PM »

Commercial Break

Zooming in

miezegreat · « **Reply #11 on:** July 02, 2008, 06:41:23 PM »

Day 2

Having spent 15 minutes in the bathroom

, and grinning silly after – off we went to the other sites.

Dive #3 - S.P. Pulau Lima

Fish: Sheik & Scuba Bunny
Inverts: DP & Miezegreat
Substrates: Bijan & Bajaulaut
Impacts: Carmen & Julian

Time in: 9.03am
Bottom Time: 62 mins
Max depth: 7m
Avg depth: 6m
Viz: 10m
Temperature: 29 Celcius

Results - Mostly hard coral, not much fishes and lotsa COTs!
Other Stuffs - Green turtle, triggerfish, batfish, moray eel under big rock, nudis, lotsa jellyfishes

I got stung by a jellyfish when we got to the boat. Ouch!

Bajaulaut & Bijan doing substrates

COTs everywhere!

Dive #4 - Paku Besar

Fish – DP & Miezegreat
Inverts: Bajau & Bijan
Substrates – Sheik & Julian
Impacts: Carmen & Scuba Bunny

Time in: 11.54am
Bottom time: 68 mins
Max depth: 10m
Avg depth: 8.2m
Viz: 10m
Temperature: 29 Celcius

Results – Same percentage for soft corals, hard corals & rock. Most of the rocks were grown with soft corals. And there are patches of NIA.
Other Stuffs -Filefish, bannerfish, triggerfishes, batfish, lotsa snappers and 1 buruh kasar from Indon.

Indon mari!

The tool

Scuba Bunny & Carmen doing impacts

Sheik and Julian doing sub ‘prostate’

DP and his toy

Dive #5 - House Reef

Fish: Scuba Bunny & Carmen
Inverts: DP & Bijan
Substrates: Miezegreat & Julian
Impacts: Sheik & Bajaulaut

Time in: 3.28pm
Bottom time: 57 mins
Max depth: 8.5m
Avg depth: 6.4m
Viz: 5m
Temperature: 30 Celcius

Results - 70% Soft corals (Zoanthids)
Other Stuffs – Well, there was nothing much to see!

AB

Julian

Bajaulaut

Horny?

Muppet Moments, err, what’s dat?

That was the last dive for the SIP. We had other plans the next day.

miezegreat · « **Reply #12 on:** July 02, 2008, 06:43:23 PM »

Commercial Break

The Cengkarung

miezegreat · « **Reply #13 on:** July 02, 2008, 06:54:41 PM »

Sheik wanted to do a photography session. That's when some mumbled, 'Not the umbrella!'
After some shots, we went to visit MACHA who just came back from his Komodo trip @ Gypsy Divers next door. And met other MUW members as well - Zephyr, Bjorn, Sheila, Poisson & Sepet.

Notice the Arnold Palmer's umbrella somewhere?

Night came, had dinner - and a karaoke session. Woohoo! Look who got the mike.

I want it that way ~

These boots are made for walking ~
hehe, we shud get the girls do the dance moves for the girls trip

Guess, a lot of people were wide awake until we finished!

miezegreat · « **Reply #14 on:** July 02, 2008, 06:56:26 PM »

Commercial Break

Ooh, Sexy DP!

jgshuwei · « **Reply #15 on:** July 02, 2008, 07:06:39 PM »

Ummi, when Lady Boss not around, U r d Boss!

miezegreat · « **Reply #16 on:** July 02, 2008, 10:23:02 PM »

Quote from: jgshuwei on July 02, 2008, 07:06:39 PM

Ummi, when Lady Boss not around, U r d Boss!

Eh, I cannot lawan the Lady Boss

miezegreat · « **Reply #17 on:** July 02, 2008, 11:01:54 PM »

continue...

Day 3

Scuba Bunny, Carmen & Julian took the 8.00am boat back to Merang and did some serious shopping at KT

. The rest of us stayed behind for the 12.00pm boat.

While Bajaulaut & wifey were lazying around Redang Kalong - Sheik, DP, Bijan & I went to Macha's for our leisure dive. Where?

Dive site: HOLY SAND! Yaay!
Time in: 9.28am
Bottom time: 47 mins
Viz: 3-5m
Temperature: 26 Celcius

All geared up, we hopped in the boat and to the site. Before jumping into the water, the first thing we saw were jellyfishes. Oh no! And there were not a few, there were hundreds! DP said it's like we were in StarWars or some kind of sci-fi movie. When descending, all had to be really careful not to touch these jelly like aliens.

Jelly aliens

After successfully avoiding them, we dived around, and I got some snaps of these:

Frog fish 1

Tiny frogfish 2 looking at its busy body neighbours

A moody one, this fella

And a not so great shot of my Kimo Sabe

When we ascended, as careful as I can be, one jelly alien got stuck on me leg, luckily I wore a wetsuit. The not so lucky ones, DP and Sheik got stung by 'em on the leg. Double ouch!

.....

Well, overall, it was a good trip.

Thanks to Julian and AB for guiding us. To my fellow eco divers: Sheik, DP, Bijan, Scuba Bunny, Carmen & Bajaulaut - had fun with you guys! And thanks to Macha & Kamal hensem

for the Holy Sand adventure.

Till then, hopefully we can all dive again in the near future.

SIP #6 - Redang Kalong Group

Behind (l-r): Sheik, DP, Julian & Carmen
Front (l-r): Bajaulaut's wifey, Bajaulaut, Miezegreat, Bijan & Scuba Bunny

* Land pics mostly from Sheik. Thanks lots!

MACHA · « **Reply #18 on:** July 03, 2008, 12:59:18 AM »

Quote from: miezegreat on July 02, 2008, 06:41:23 PM

Day 2

AB

kahkahkahkahkah...classic shot hahaha must show him la dey!...underwater oso must do the boss pose! nice shots!

great

shafi · « **Reply #19 on:** July 03, 2008, 09:12:43 AM »

Excellent reporting guys!!!!

Hate to have missed it, but glad it went as best as it possibly could!

sheik · « **Reply #20 on:** July 03, 2008, 09:37:18 AM »

Quote from: shafi on July 03, 2008, 09:12:43 AM

Excellent reporting guys!!!!

Hate to have missed it, but glad it went as best as it possibly could!

We certainly had fun... but we know what you DID last weekend.

anyways, here are some more topside pix (i surely can't beat miezegreat's great u/w pix).

Carmen taking a break.

Sheila and DP practicing for Ballroom dance (later that evening).

mart1njo3 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 03, 2008, 12:23:06 PM »

sifu sheikh, how do u get the pics to stand out like that ?

cheers...

dp · « **Reply #22 on:** July 03, 2008, 01:20:42 PM »

Quote from: mart1njo3 on July 03, 2008, 12:23:06 PM

sifu sheikh, how do u get the pics to stand out like that ?

cheers...

he used the umbrella-ella-ella-ella

eh eh eh.

ScubaBunny · « **Reply #23 on:** July 03, 2008, 01:26:40 PM »

I tot he just ask d subjects to stand? Like Bijan...

tulip · « **Reply #24 on:** July 03, 2008, 01:29:01 PM »

hehehe...

sheik · « **Reply #25 on:** July 09, 2008, 12:09:26 AM »

Quote from: ScubaBunny on July 03, 2008, 01:26:40 PM

I tot he just ask d subjects to stand? Like Bijan...

I don't ask Bijan to stand la.. i just ask him to sit down only... like this:

since that day, I have not eaten any spaghetti yet ;-)

ScubaBunny · « **Reply #26 on:** July 09, 2008, 12:28:24 AM »

Aiyoh.. scary man... Dat one just woke up, just imagine if he is not sleepy...

juma_rossa · « **Reply #27 on:** July 09, 2008, 08:25:01 AM »

Quote from: Sheik on July 09, 2008, 12:09:26 AM

Quote from: ScubaBunny on July 03, 2008, 01:26:40 PM
I tot he just ask d subjects to stand? Like Bijan...

I don't ask Bijan to stand la.. i just ask him to sit down only... like this:

since that day, I have not eaten any spaghetti yet ;-)

alahai... dear bijan
hehe..

swong · « **Reply #28 on:** July 09, 2008, 11:52:02 AM »

Bijan,
Baru keluar dari Kamunting ke!(Just came out from Kamunting prison)Just kidding.

ROTFL

Good shot Sheik.

bijan · « **Reply #29 on:** July 09, 2008, 01:12:53 PM »

OIT!