Sipadan - Day 3

Sorry, my Darling! For not replying on your messages & picking on your calls as my phone wasn’t with me since I landed! I am safe & sound here, even though I slipped and fell coming out from the bathtub and had a deep cut on my toe… Opps! Just a little gushing of blood outta it & a blue black on my knee, but I’m fine! :X

I woke up at 4 plus smelling the rain and went to bring in all our clothes from the balcony. As my bed was the closest to the balcony & I slept the opposite direction just to have a glimpse of the waters whenever I open my eyes…I could by then, around 5am see lotsa lighting flashing across the sky. It’s beautiful yet scarey at the same time thinking there could be a huge thunder storming coming…

Towards 6am, the windows from the other room were already flapping mad causing the slamming sound against the room structure.

Blessing in disguised.

Firstly, the wind was not blowing into the balcony direction, else my bed and I would have gotten wet!!!

Secondly, my bags were places near a platform in the corner of the room and not near any windows. As my two other roommates were still sleeping, I had to help by closing all windows, locking them tight before I transferred all their bags to a dry area.

Thirdly, Lucky for us, we were supposed to go for dawn dive at 5.30am but it was cancelled due to another group of divers who will be leaving today and that they only allow 20 divers for dawn dive per day! Better luck for the group whom missed it this morning!

By the time, I finished writing the above, the waters had calmed down & the sun was out! Yeah…the sun is up around 6am here, which caused me a fright on the first day as it was so bright, I thought my alarm did not sound and that I missed the first dive! Haha!


People always say… the sunshine comes after the rain? We’ve got the rainbow! Two of them! Breakfast is complete! Haha!

All 4 dives were fantastic as I experience various stuffz today.

First dive was at Barracuda Point – Sipadan, beautiful corals and marine life, fat sharks and huge turtles and a 2.5 knots current! I was panting hard fighting against it and managed to hide under a rock with a school of barracuda passing through! Terrific view!!!

I almost puke on the second dive at South point – Sipadan, but it was rather “fun” being caught in the ‘washing machine current”, all of us were swinging, back and forth and sideways!

Third dive was at Seaventure Oil Rig – Mabul… Macro, macro & more macro! I love it!!! This is one of my longest dives ever, almost an hour bottom time!

Forth dive was a sunset dive at Mandarin valley – Kapalai. Our main motive was to see ‘ porn show’…I meant mating mandarin fishes but the others were just going too fast! I was still at the area searching for the cuties but I noticed my dive maters were already too far from me! They were at least 10meters away? With my force fins, I better chiong to join them in case they think I’m lost! Nevertheless, I still spotted quite a few stuffz by myself and even showed it to them.

I’m beginning to love night dives but I needa purchase an underwater torch for myself. Thanks Ron, for loaning yours to me. Appreciate it!

I needa sleep pretty soon as tomorrow we have to wake up at 4am to go for dawn dive.

Cheers! To see the school of humphead parrotfish tomorrow!!!

Missing you even more today…