...full coverage of the second Penang trip?
ok... this time around i stayed in Berjaya Georgetown Hotel. its a really city hotel, its actually a part of a shopping complex (1-Stop) behind gurney drive. got it quite cheap coz they were having an anniversary sale for the hotel. its rm140 per night plus breakfast and dinner. the hotel is err ok.... tiny swimming pool, old but usable gym, a cafe, a bar and a restaurant and thats it! its a pretty basic hotel really. the superior room is normal, with old bed sheets but high ceiling, TV with AXN (which is very nice). the toilet has a bath tab, which is useless i'd rather have a steam shower. this breakfast buffet typical hotel stuff. this food for the dinner buffet is typical as well just that the have this 2 huge freezer filled with Haagen-Daz ice cream! heavenly! hehehe...
sampai shj hotel jumaat late around 9pm terus pegi dinner, check in. saturday, got up, breakfast, a chinese guy picked me up for the pulau payar trip with the Langkawi Coral company. from penang 2 package available,
1. the platform package with buffet lunch, RM145
2. the beach package with juct packed lunch but on the beach, RM115.
since i already had buffet breakfast and dinner i opt for the second option! plus its on the beach! so off to pulau payar...
clockwise from top-left :
the permenant platform with underwater coral viewing chamber,
the beach over looking pulau lembu, good spot for scuba diving,
the azure blue water riddled with corals,
rocky side of the beach and the docks
the journey took 1 hour and 40 mins. all equipment are provided by them. took loads of pictures of clownfish, butterflyfish, moorish idol, parrotfish, wrasse, sargeant majors, fusiliers and some baby black-tip sharks! awesome! it quite easy to capture coral fishes on camera but to get a good focused on sharks are almost impossible. they are so agile, swift, and always swimming at a lightning speed. the water is good in the morning, azure-blue. but after lunch the weather turned against me. it rained and very cloudy and quite dark. its ok i did not waste the precious good weather in the morning... pictures...
clockwise from top-left :
false or common clownfish (nemo) surrounded with anemonies with poisonous tentacles,
a eight-banded butterfly fish,
an big old grouper (malay name - keratang) more than 1m long,
one of those belacak-type fish normally on the sed bed
clockwise from top-left :
a butterfly fish normally yellow this is a different variant,
fish from the wrasse family,
sponge corals all sorts of colours,
a moorish idol
clockwise from top left :
even more anomonies this one has those orange clownfish (the ones with only one stripe)
a baby black-tip shark on the move,
a black-backed butterfly fish,
a sargeant major and a parrot fish i think in there... among those sponge corals
