Pulau Perhentian & Scuba Diving Course

3- 6 March - Open Water Diving course with Kelly, Urko and Edwin in Perhentian Island (located north-east coast of peninsular Malaysia)

Stop somewhere near Gua Musang for midnight snack

Parking lot

Looking for breakfast near the jeti

Have some local food

Nasi Kerabu

Some kind of Kelantan chee cheong fun

Buy some water

Wait for the boat

Get all our stuff onto the boat....

Me and Urko my course buddy

Whoo hoo... bumpy boat ride

Nice

Almost there ... Perhentian is Edwin's favourite island..
Oh, check out his Beerlao t-shirt

Arrive at big island

Get stuff off the boat

NIce

Kelly brought some beer

Me.. hehehe

Stay here

Welcome to D'aymni house

Check in to our room

Pulau Perhentian ... small island, big island

Have some ramli burger for lunch

Set up equipment and wait for the next dive

Release oxygen and do all the checks...

Instructor Kelly, Jamie Soon and Urko ... all set for first open water dive!

Briefing .. this dive site can see some shrimp...etc

Get on the boat ...

Lots of upgrading works going on here.

Evening walk around the beach

Relax

Jalan jalan... nice sand

Mini crab...

High tide and sunset

Dinner time, lots of mat salleh tourist here

Scuba knowledge review and beer lao

Next day breakfast

Welcome to seahorse diver

Kelly prepares the quiz papers

Objective... piece of cake ...

Urko getting bored while Jamie Soon trying to focus ...

Learning to navigate with a compass

Nice day

How to use the compass

Time for lunch.... roti canai pisang with honey

Boatman having pinapple juice

Exam time! Alot of calculation to do... but we all pass!

Every dark cloud has a silver lining... or in this case .. its gold...

Whoo hoo.... finish up all the beer in one night....

Hey, another picture of the same jetty...

Next day.. enough diving... walk around the island

Some fishing boats

Shop

Can camp here

Divings doing some confined water training...

Can snorkling here

Exploring a way into the jungle... where's the entrance

Huh... trekking

Come out to another beach resort

Got some more resorts here... this part is nice and peaceful...

Have lunch

at B First cafe... recommended by someone

Prawns, sotong, etc.. mango juice.. pineapple juice... mango shake

Trekking to waterfall ... with sandals ...

Nice waterfall behind... top secret... people using as watersource..

Ok time for dinner.... tuna bay restaurant.. have some tomyam

Yay... certified as Padi Open Water Diver!

Photoshoot... putting on my fins...

Today last day, we do a fun dive... first dive after graduating...

Another nice day

Andy gives a briefing...

Today we dive at Batu Layar divesite

Some other scuba divers

Put on the gear

Uhhh.. carry to the boat

Photo shoot

Whoo hooo ... had to exhale to sink down
abit so that can take photo with urko

Ok ok...

Can see some fish

Wow.. lots of mini fish...

3 min 5 meter safety stop

Ok, check out...

Bye bye

So hungry, eat KFC......

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