Perhentian Kecil day 2 & 3

The restaurants here don't have the best food, and are quite expensive, however being able to sit on the beach, one metre away the sea is pretty special. On my second day here, I went on an organised snorkel trip. It was a lot of fun, but I had no other backpackers with me which was odd. Both the islands seem to be full of either families or couples, as was my trip today.
We had 4 or 5 snorkel stops at different bays on the two Perhentian islands. We saw baby black finned reef sharks at one, who are actually very chilled out. Our instructor said in the right season you can spot the larger adult sharks, who are up to 2 metres long, but are still very safe to swim with, but not sure I'd be that relaxed about! We also saw a sea turtle between two of the stops. I felt bad for the poor turtle, as other boats also stopped so it was pretty crowded and the turtle got surrounded.
We got dropped off for lunch at a local buffet which was some of the best food I've had here and then made a few more snorkel stops. I got to see fish that Nemo and Dory as based off, and lots of other colourful creatures. The only sad thing was that there wasn't actually much coral which was alive, in some spots the sea floor was covered in bleached coral shrapnel.
Despite wearing SPF 100 waterproof suncream, my legs still managed to get very burnt!
The next day, had a very chilled out morning reading and actually managed to finish my first book of the trip (which I'd been carrying around for 4 months)!
In the evening, we grabbed dinner and then wandered over to long beach again to have some beers and watch more of the fire show.Leggi altro