Day 3 at Sipidan Island

Dawn dive at Sipidan was at 5.30am. Dive site was barracuda point. The moment we decent, schools of bumphead and jacks was performing an orchestrated morning dance in circles and figure of eight. Along came white tip sharks, bat fish, turtles and the barracudas. The school of barracudas stole the show for the rest of the dive. We saw almost everything we intended to see except the hammerhead sharks. The barracudas tornado performance was breathtaking. You can hear the accelerated breathing of divers watching the performance in awe. Some opened their mouth so wide that the 2nd stage almost slip off.


Others with camera busy taking shots and video at different angles and directions. This is once again the best dive I ever had over the last four years. The visibility was about 30m.


2nd dive at White tip point. Steep drop off down the slopping reef. Depth was about 35m. Saw four to five sharks circling around, curious of the intrusion of noisy divers. Also spotted some bumpheads and other common reef fishes.


3rd dive at staghorns point. Staghorns are not as dense as Renggis in Tioman, but its richly populated with marine life. Strangle enough, we spotted lobster off the wall. We hope in vain to see
hammer head sharks.




4th dive at Lobster Lair off Sipidan Island. Another satisfying dive that allows us to enjoy the wonders of underwater world. No words can accurately describe the exotic blissful view. Needless to say the visibility is between 25-30m.

Day 2 at Mabul Island

Started the day at 7am, took a scenic stroll down the garden towards the restaurant for breakfast. Had two sunny side up eggs and noodles and a cup of coffee to create the urge for morning dump.

During the stroll, I cleared my mind off a bad dream last night. Started to set my goals to map out my destination in my mind, so it will in turn, create a quicker, more efficient route for me to experience those things in reality. Took small steps by reframing my mind for positive experience, so that I can enjoy the dives today.

Morning dive at Kapalai Resort house reef. Its basically a muck dive with some 

wrecks, something similar to the wrecks at Tioman marine park. Visibility was about 15m with depth up to 21m. Saw a giant moray eel, stone fish, juvenile puffer fishes, one meter garupa and a banded ghost pipe fish.

Took some picture of the wrecks and the rest of the divers around the wrecks sine I am trying out new setting on the camera on manual mode. Manage to shot a clear video of schools of yellow tail near the jetty of Kapalai resort. The resort from the outside does not look appealing. I will pass this place if I come back to Sipidan. The concept is great on stilt over the shallow shoal. However think it’s not maintained well, looks very run down. On the other hand the water village is fantastic. Understand the owners is Japanese and the food is good. Service is fantastic according to the divers we met staying over there.

Afternoon dive at Eel Garden off Mabul Island. There are many small garden eels over the sandy bottom, the visibility was around 25m. This dive site is average as compared to the dive sites around Sipidan island. The normal sight is turtles, lobsters, bumphead, trigger and moray eels off the gradual slopping reef.

Night dive at Lobster Lair off Mabul Island. This is one of the best night dive I had. huge Crabs, crayfish, prawns and trigger fishes resting in their small cave off the wall. Drifted with the weak current off the wall, enjoying the sightings and busy trying to snap good shots for evidence of a good night dive. We dive down to about 20m for about 60 minutes. Finished the dive with a great sense of satisfaction.The rest of the evening was spent photo viewing and sharing the night dive experience with the other divers that did not go for the night dive.