Islands....

For those who don't know, I'm still in Kota Kinabalu. Went for island hopping today. After lunch, Me and Meng Tat(Chea Choon left for Singapore yesterday night) head off towards the jetty. Upon arrival at the jetty, as expected, people started approaching us to offer boat rides to islands. We bargained and finally got RM100 for 2 of us to go to 2 islands.

Our 1st stop was Mamutih island. At 1st glance, the island was nice and the beach was quite a pleasant place. Sadly, that wasn't the truth. After walking around the beach awhile, we decided to go down to the sea with our snorkeling gear. (rented from the boat, RM10 1 set) Once we walked down into the water, our legs started to hurt. zzzzz the sand there, wasn't sandy at all. The place was covered with stones, rocks and broken shells. Some of the stones are damn big and sharp. Really uncomfortable lor. Then when we put our head in with our snorkeling gear, we saw nothing.... The water was murky and blur. Can't see anything. Spent very little time in the sea, spent most of the time just relaxing and enjoying the calm surroundings.

After 2 hours at Mamutih, we headed of on the same boat to Mandukan island. Mandukan island was worst than Mamutih.... The moment we stepped down on to the jetty, we can already see
rubbish floating in the sea. Again, we took a walk along the beach before we went in to the water. Once again, we were disappointed with the stony sands and murky water. This time, can see maggi mee cover also.... zzzz.. but surprisingly, we manage to see a few fishes through our goggles. I came out of the water earlier caused I really didn't like the sand. Headed to the benches and relaxed. I actually fell asleep for awhile, the environment was really quite and relaxing. Really needed that kind of mood with everything that has been going on. Spent 2 hours in Mandukan also. Went back to the mainland then headed for dinner and then back.

Been spending a lot... Will be trying to stay on the next 2 days with minimum budget =( .

p.s. To add on to my last post about the mountain, I also regretted not bringing a camera here. Wasted, damn lot of nice scenery. We didn't take many photos because the only camera we have here is Meng Tat's video camera which is really troublesome to take out from the bag just to snap pics.