Caryn's Travels & Adventures: Fly kite?

Kong : Eh.. where you go ar? Never see you online lately.
Me : Layang-layang.
Kong : Har? Go fly kite bo kio laaaaa...! ('bo kio' is 'never call' in hokkien)
Me : What fly kite? It's an island la.. I went diving! *faint*

Beautiful Sunset

Layang Layang has been a relaxing trip... hmm.. wait.. actually I lied. It was a "not-so-relax" trip after all.

It started off with... flight delayed! Goshness... I couldn't meet up with my friend Cecilia who offered to fetch us from the airport, then for seafood dinner and karaoke! (BooHoo0! I missed KK prawns.)

At Layang Layang, I thought our luck has changed... cos Yanni greeted me upon arrival and told me they saw school of hammerheads, saw thresher shark and also.... WHALE SHARK! Gosh.. can u imagine how wide my smile was at that time?

with Yanni the Borneo Turtle

Day 1
First dive and only about 10 minutes after we descent, we saw eagle ray! Goshness... is this a sign to a good beginning... well... no sign of hammerheads though.. but during safety stop..."ting ting ting ting" (ringer from DI Jasper) everyone quickly descent following Jasper from the back. Guess what? A school of pygmy devil rays!! At least 30 0f them. I was soooo happy! :)

Day 2
Hmm... no sign of hammerheads but we saw manta ray, leaf scorpion fishes, frog fishes and the usuals... :(

Manta ray performing sommersault

Day 3
We've got Seok from Scubazoo (whose picture recently appeared as the coverpage of Australasia Diving Magazine) with us in the morning. And towards the end of the dive, Jasper spotted 2 hammerheads and yes! Seok caught it on video! WoooHooo.. no pictures from me though.. as it was too deep :(

We also spotted ghostpipefish, frog fish and pygmy seashorse... Weeeeeeeeeeee....

Day 4
"Hammerheads hunters" (hunt with camera only ar..) are you ready? YES! We were all so excited. My buddy Elvin jumped down and then shouted "DAMN! #@$@#$" All of us were so worried. We thought he flooded his camera again. (Yes he flooded his camera twice before. Hehee) Then we found out that he forgot to put back his memory card in his camera. Doh! So, there he is all ready to photograph the hammers, but... no memory card. He was soooooo upset!

Jasper believe that this means luck and we for sure gonna see some hammers. AND.... WE DID! HoHoHoHooO... Two huge hammerheads and they turned back to check us out. So, we saw it twice. HeeeeeeHeee... I was trying to shoot the picture of the hammerhead and then suddenly... BooM.. right in front of me, buddy Elvin asking for his picture taken with the hammers. Gosh, he looked like he "fell" in the water. HeeHeee...

Day 5
We only did 1 dive and then headed to the Birds island for ... what else? Birds watching lor... Heehehe...

On the following day, we were all set and ready to head home and then... the chartered plane won't start? Goshness... we were not worried at first because our connecting flight is late in the evening. Waiting... waiting... and more waiting... till my buddy Tat decided to take his swimtrunk and went into the pool for a dip. Then... it is 4pm and we knew that we will not be able to make it for our connecting flight back to Brunei. Goshness.. we started the trip with a delayed flight and now.. we gonna miss our flight? Yes. We did miss our flight. We only managed to fly back to KK late around 7ish at night. We stayed overnight in KK and then catch a morning flight back to Brunei. When we are on board the flight back to Brunei, we thought that it should be the end to all the bad luck that we had... no... we were wrong. Started off with a delayed flight, then missed our connecting flight, and it ended with.... a delayed flight. We got stuck in the plane for a good 1 hour before it took off. *Speechless*

Oh well... nonetheless, we had lotsss of funs and I am sure my buddies agree so. :)

Here are some of my favourite shots from Layang Layang: