Monday, August 20, 2007

Mission Dive 1.1

Once again i'm back. Well let's get started. So, i went over to Kota Bharu staying a night over @ my aunt's place & also to collect the dive equipment from her. Reached KB(kota bharu) around 7++pm. A real long journey drive all by myself.
This is the house of my aunt. Yea, it's half wooden & half bricks. That 4WD is her husband vehicle. They are dive instructor & they influenced me to dive.

I'd say if you want to get a good rest, it is recomended to go a day earlier to stay over at KB, only that it'll be more fun. When you stay over a night in KB you won't be bored to hell as what the papers write is not true. The state of Kelantan has been developing really good & it's cleaner than KL. What's more during the night you can get really GOOD FOOD!!!!. Think of cheap, fantastic food, Think of Kelantan. KL don't have national park compare to Kelantan. Good price compare to KL.

So that night Aunt Sofea cooked spagheti for us. Us including her family which consists of Husband(uncle Razak), elder son Haziq & younger son Irshad. Sounds weird right?? Not to worry. My aunt got married to a malay which i call it Malaysian. Her cooking skills can make u drool!! Even now i'm typing my saliva has been producing more!! After dinner, we had some chat, then i blogged my update in my previous post then called it a day.

Morning comes. This are one of the view taken in the morning at her house. It's so relaxing. Oh yea. The house got 4 geese!!!! An alternative to dogs. You'll also freaked out when they come towards you & also cute!

Breakfast if i'm not mistaken she bought nasi dagang(i think so) & sweet potatoes. In Kelantan you can get food that is spicy, sweet, & sour.

So after breakfast she drove me to the airport to meetup with 3 of my friends that is twin terror Joanne & Lena & Joanne's U.S friend named Joe. It's been around 6years i last met Joanne. Her face is full of pimples. Maybe karma cause her mouth can't stop yapping. haha.. She's taking her Open Water Course alone & Lena, Joe & i was there to do our dive. 1st time diving with friends!!!!!..Now i got 'legs' to do diving already.

When reached the airport, there was a small hiccups as we need to get another cab due to another family from Singapore also heading the same resort with us but everything was sorted out.

After around an hour from Kota Bharu Airport we reached Kuala Besut Jetty. We waited at the agent's office & other people before we started our boat journey into the resort. Seriously i've got no clue on how it was going to be. We waited for about half an hour maybe. The jetty area has been developing & they government are upgrading the jetty which is a good thing but i felt they are destroying the original taste. I felt the old jetty is already good enough & it bring the feelings of kampung. Doing more harm than good i would say.




Before everyone board the fast boat which takes about 1/2 hour to reach, each individual need to pay a fee of RM5.00 to the counter as it is a marine park. The counter looked like a stall selling food stuff. The guy with a drak shirt is the instructor for Joanne. His looks, way of speaking & other stuffs don't looked like a dive instructor. He's talking alot though. Can't stand him
initially but later on found that he's entertaining.









Me & Joanne














Lena & Joe









Lena & me. We're heading for the 1st dive of the day. Batu Nissan. Our dive master was an American named Jon. Bloody tall & very squarish. Before we goes, we were briefed on what to expect on the dive site & other important hand signals & procedures. Too bad the 1st dive did not managed to take photos as i was still new to to the underwater casing which i asked Joanne bought for me from the states. No time to figure it out as when we reached the resort, it was like around 11am++ & we are due to meetup at the dive shop at 1.30pm to prepare for
our 1st dive.



After our dive of our day, we had nothing to do & everyone like fleeing away from joe. Poor him. Tood bad as he's abit weird like Joanne said. It's abit freaking towards the end of the trip. wak wak wak wak...










This Resort you can also see hairy worm. Nature resort. This resort are unique i would say. It is a nature resort. You can't find any karaoke or tv's here. You'll only get to chat with the friendly staffs here. What's more the whole resort staffs knows how to dive even the bangla too!! At night you'll have butterflies going round the table to entertain you at times. hahaha...That's PR i would say. Even though there's no tv around we still got entertained. A good job to them!







In the noon when you have got nothing to do, you can laugh your head off. You'll see some antics. People who do not know how to kayak got stucked at the reefs half way towards the sea!!



to be continued........

3 comments:

MikeM said...

nice and u will b away for 2 months soon rite??? my badge my badge... dont forget...

kennethnorman said...

yup will b away for 2months...yea..i wont 4get ur badge

Anonymous said...

Well written article.