Sipadan Wonderland - 8th to 13th April 2007

It has been fantastic dives at sipadan - one of the top dive sites in the world. What have I seen so far at Sipadan?

The follows are some of the fantastic underwater life that i've seen - some that I've always wanted to see:
- school of grey reef sharks
- white-tip sharks
- frogfish - black (giant frogfish), freckled frogfish, clown frogfish
- mandarin fishes - LOTS of them and I watched PORN! FISHporn :P saw mandarin fishes matings
- juvenille lion fish
- flambuoyant cuttlefish
- shrimps - anemone, anbonian
- pink squat lobsters
- orang utan crab
- crocodile fishes
- stargazer
- flounders
- LOTSSSSSSSS of turtles
- napolean wrasse
and much much more

Words cant describe how beautiful sipadan is. Thanks to Sipadan water village and the wonderful staff here.
Divemasters that had been really helpful and fabulous service - Lee (for organising), Jimmy, Jay, Allan, Ron (the manta)
Boatmen - Karangan, Abdullah and more :)

I've enjoyed the dives lotsssss... but i am not too sure what else to write. Maybe cos i am quite upset at this moment. My memory card has just corrupted and i lost 4 dives worth of pictures for today. So, sorry guys, no photos of juvenille lion fishes, nudies, school of barrucadas and jacks doing circles, clown frogfish and flambouyant cuttlefish :(... I am just so upset that i feel like crying...

written on 11th April 2007

Mel's Reef - 21st May 2006

Oh.. MY GOSH.... this reef is just sooooooooooo good... so so so GOOD....

Can't believe that we saw shark on both dives! Excellent dives led by Hermoine the Dive Master. First dive we saw white tip shark, swam away after we tried to get closer. Really cool to see the shark "disappear" so fast. We saw cowrie (i think this is it's spell ) , lots of anemone fish, lion fish, snappers and groupers and goby...

Second dive, we dived at the same spot but this time, moving south. We saw scorpion fish cleverly camouflaged itself on top of the coral. We spotted lion fish, slugs, giant snapper and giant grouper, batfish and last but not least, NURSE SHARK...! We came really close to the shark and managed to take a good look of the head and tail of the shark. It was resting ... so we manage to have a good 5 mins look at it before we were called to do our safety stop and end our dives.

I wonder... what other kind of shark will we spot next dive? Hammerhead? Or perhaps... whale shark?

Comments I received:
from zyan
Next time if you saw the shark, wake her up by cutting whoever you like most. You had seen twice the shark hiding in the rock. Should try out seeing her swimming around. :)(http://spaces.msn.com/zyaneric/) May 23 5:47 PM

from Elvin Hii
Ya, I equally was very satisfied with today's dives, it's just amazing. Next time we can arrange again with our manta group to visit these Mel's Reef again. Baby Manta, good observation skill, me as your instructor, I felt proud. Well done!! heheehe.
Cute Manta(http://spaces.msn.com/elvinhii/) May 21 9:38 PM

My reply to comments received:
Zyan... har? wut is the shark got aggressive and attack me leh?? cannot risk that oo.. :P
(http://spaces.msn.com/keileem/) May 30 8:35 PM