Lee n Tan

Spent the day lazing on the beach, nothing special just relaxing – swimming, reading, the boys played volleyball. It was our hottest day so far & not much of a breeze.

We had dinner at our resort – it was a bit disappointing. We had the seafood BBQ but no where near as good a value as the last time. Then we went to Fours for drinks and left there about 1am. The boys had a few but Fanny & I didn’t – my foot seems to swell & ache when I drink.

Laid in this morning till about 10am, then we went down for brekkie. ‘The Swedes’ turned up after and we planned out our day. We hired a canoe from the Resort and paddled around to Monkey Bay, ‘The Swedes’ walked over the hill through the jungle again. Monkey Bay is the next bay south of us around the headland.

We both packed some fried rice and snacks and spent the whole day over there. How relaxing, we spent the day swimming, reading & just chilling out. The boys rigged up a rope swing but that didn’t work very well. That must have got them going because after that didn’t work they decided to take the water out of a 10ft run about – still in good nick – but very much on a lean. Once it was floating upright they found 2 long bamboo polls and proceeded – Venice style – to take the boat out so they could go snorkelling in deeper water.

Fanny & I lazed on the beach & watched them mucking around. We canoed home, showered & now we are sitting on our deck overlooking the bay enjoying a bourbon!

We finally got to do the Round Island Trip today with ‘The Swedes’ It was a fantastic day for it. Our first stop was Juara. It was a very sleepy little bay so the 4 of us threw the Aerobi around with our new friend…..Mamat. A local about 5 years old, cheeky little devil wanted Lee to go up for a beer to his hut!! He asked us all our names and used them frequently so he was keen to learn!

Next port of call was a Waterfall, about a 15min walk through the jungle. It was very cold but nice to be in fresh water – great for my foot! Lunch came next at Paya, a lot more expensive than our little patch of paradise. You could see that when we pulled up the resorts were a lot more upmarket.

There were 13 of us on the boat including the driver (14 originally but he hopped off because he through there were too many on the boat). So there were the 4 of us, Cindy & Lyn (Aussie sisters from Brisbane travelling through a bit of Asia then the Trans Siberian then onto London to work for a while), Rudy (German), a French couple, a newly wed Malaysian couple and another German guy.

After lunch our driver kindly pulled into Tekek for us were the airport & only ATM on the island so we could withdraw some more cash. We then set anchor just off Renggis Island for some snorkelling. Great spot, we saw another turtle and Lee found a couple of swim throughs that he, Hobrick & the German swam through.

Monkey Bay was our last port of call, I stayed in the boat with a few of the other girls feeding bread to the fish – the others snorkelled. Our day started at 10.30am and we arrived home at 7pm so it was a very full day. It was a fantastic day well worth the 100RM.

We had our dinner then ‘The Swedes’ joined us for dessert!!! Orange Pancakes – disgustingly good!!!

Had dinner last night with ‘The Swedes’ & sat at the bar till 1am. We didn’t have a lot to drink at all but I woke with a bit of a headache and we had planned to do the Round Island Trip. Hence that got cancelled and I slept in until 1pm. Lee filled in his day by sitting on our balcony and reading his book.

We spent the arvo down on the beach swimming and reading. We had a BBQ dinner at our resort….Cobia Steak very nice.

We love Island Life!! We met the Fanny & Hobrick for brekkie then the 4 of us went for a snorkel around an island about 200m off the point. It was really good to be in the water. The coral wasn’t much be there were a few colourful fish and the highlight was we saw our first turtle!! We went around the whole island then came back into the shallow & played with the Aerobi.

We ate lunch for under 9 Aussie dollars with drinks! ‘The Swedes’ decided to go for a trek over to Monkey Bay I couldn’t go because my foot is still not right so now Lee is having a snooze and I am on the balcony enjoying the view……what a life!

7pm – Monkey Time!! The locals seem to come out at this time of night. We had all our stuff out on the table including a water proof bag with Lee’s wallet & the underwater camera and one of these monkeys came along the railing & took an interest in it. I tried to scare him off but he fronted up to me. Eventually he put it down but had another go then took off.

Lee was down picking up the book he had dropped off the balcony so he was unaware of the goings on. I came around the corner of the hut and another one came bounding over the roof at me – god my heart was pumping. I ran back inside then Lee got the big stick that was outside our door & chased them away, but not until one came over the roof at him! We were wondering why we had a big stick leaning up against the wall for…….guess what now we have two!! Lee went and found one with a bit more weight to it.

Cheeky, nasty Monkeys!!!