Mabul - Sipadan, 3 - 8 February 2011 (Day 5 & 6)

Day 5

Diving at Sipadan! This is the climax of the trip. People all over the world come here to dive. Here's me at the island's jetty. Entrance is controlled and based strictly on issued permits. Maximum of 120 divers per day

Anis tagging on our dive guide. Before our guide pulled the shark's tail fin hehehe

Map and profile of Sipadan Island. See the profile? It's like a vertical wall around Sipadan. All the way down to a depth of 600m!

Anis, stressing a point

But here trying to fish, sans the fishing rod

See that? The wall on the left and darkness into oblivion on the right. Scary

I just love these small fish

Army post on Sipadan Island

Some scenery shots of Sipadan Island. Taken during our surface interval

Another view

Our third dive. Straight away greeted by the view of this school of jackfish. Amazing!

Turtle. There's so many of them at Sipadan

Bumphead fish. Check out the size of the fish!

Me, trying to keep up with the turtle (and failed miserably)

That's a school of barracudas. They do have scary, sharp teeth!

The school of barracudas. Amazing!

A big jellyfish

Anis & me!

See that boatload of oyster? It just costs RM20. It's being sold by Bajau Laut people who lives in small boat around Mabul Island.

Then did sunset photoshooting. Practising my off camera flash skill

Another shot
Day 6

Last day here. No more dives as we are not allowed to dive 24 hours before flying. To avoid risk of decompression sickness. That's Yoko, my dive instructor. We call her Cikgu Yoko. She's a Malay speaking Japanese

Anis & Kenot!

We spend the day visiting this place. Kapalai Island resort, which is a high-end resort on the sandbanks of Kapalai. A really, really nice place.

See what I mean?

Another shot of the resort

Catch of the day. Big tunas!

We left later in the day on the last flight out of Tawau. I am determined to be back to Mabul - Sipadan soon!