Land beneath the wind

9th till 12th August 2007

Eric, Ai Thin, Chris, Lee Ming & myself decided to head off to Limbang overnight and then spend the rest of our long weekend in KK - the land beneath the wind.

We stayed overnight at Limbang's Prime Hotel to avoid the traffic at Kuala Lurah border the following day. Simon, the owner of the hotel, who is also our dive buddy generously took us for a delicious PRAWNS dinner! We had 4 dishes of prawns cooked in different style. After dinner, Simon took us for karaoke at Tokyo Lounge (ermm.. dont expect too much out from the name) and Albert, another diver from Limbang sang beautifully...!

In KK, we had a F-A-N-T-A-S-T-I-C time. Besides the yummy food, shop-till-our-wallet-KOYAK-spree, party-till-our-eyes-cannot-open, we had 3 good dives with Scuba Paradise Borneo.

Dive 1 - Agill Reef
The maximum depth is about 20m. We spent a good 60 minutes bottom time, although we could actually stayed longer as our SPGs read 150 bar still. The visibility, however was not that great. Probably about 5m or 8m max. There are the usual suspects: cardinals, damsels, nudis, puffers, parrots, and gobies! We also spotted a couple of pipefish.

Dive 2 - Sapi Reef
The maximum depth is also about 20m. We spent only about 45minutes this time underwater. We were quite disappointed with the short bottom time but nonetheless, we managed to get some good shots to add into our collections. For this dive, besides the usual, we spotted flounder, wasp fish, juvenille crocodile fish, blue spotted stingray, nudis, orange goby and not forgetting Tatssy's favourite lizard fish! Heehee...

Dive 3 - Clement Reef
Why is this dive site called Clement Reef? Well, obviously it was named after Clement who found the reef. Heehee.. Maximum depth for this dive is about 15m. Our bottom time is about 45 minutes. We spotted the usuals and a cuttlefish. The highlight for this last dive has to be the humongous yellow nudi which looks like a lady bug.

Here are some of my favourite shots from KK dives.

After the dives, we head over to Shenanigans and then to Cocoon, where we made new friends from KK - E Tian, Emily and Angela. Are they available? Hmm.. Not too sure, need to find out from our dear friend Chris the Sor G Ggg... Mui mui mui mui mui....!