I have been itching to dive at Sipadan as it has been more than a year since my last trip there. After the dive trip to Lembeh, my yearning to dive again became stronger and stronger. Planned for a trip for 3-4 people but due to spread of word, my group grew larger to a 10 member crew. But alls good. As they say, the more, the merrier. The day we left for Tawau came closer and I was SO excited that I couldn't sleep for 2 days!
Met Alli, Josie and baby Allison at Tawau and got acquainted with my new dive com. The weather was good (although it did rain a bit but that did not stop us from diving). The company was great! Stayed at SWV. Had a beautiful view from my chalet :) Amazing place.
Did a total of 15 dives in 4 days including 2 dawn dives, 2 sunset dives and 1 night dives.
Day 1:
Dive sites: Paradise 1 (check dive), Ribbon Valley 2, Paradise 1 (sunset dive)
Day 2:
Dive sites: Beach 3 (Si Amil), Danawan Reef, Kapalai HouseReef, Paradise 2 (night dive)
Day 3:
Dive sites: Barracuda Point, Turtle's Patch, South Point, Barracuda Point (2nd trip coz we couldn't get enough of 'em barracudas), Paradise 1 (sunset dive)
Day 4:
Dive sites: Paradise 2 (dawn dive), Seaventures HouseReef, Old Lobster Wall
Highlights:
- Turtles galore (so many HUGE ones!)
- Schools of barracudas and jacks
- Schools of Giant Bumphead Parrotfish
- Saw this lone Great Barracuda that scared the shit out of me...
- Pygmy seahorse (omg! so cute!!!)
- Flamboyant cuttlefish (too excited to see this!)
- Juvenile Papuan cuttlefish (so cute!)
- Juvenile yellow boxfish (i like this one)
- Juvenile bicoloured parrotfish (just like in my ReefLife book)
- Juvenile common lionfish (beautiful!)
- Juvenile giant frogfish
- Zebra lionfish
- Napoleon wrasse
- Helfrich's dart goby
- Red and Purple fire goby (i like)
- Morrison's dragonet
- Ornate ghostpipefish
- Gold spec jawfish (i like!!!)
- Ring eyed jawfish
- Yellow shrimp goby
- Dancing shrimp goby (i like!)
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wow. sounds great. all you need now is a camera.
i wanna get my pink fins first ;)
haha better get the whole dive set lol ... i think you probably have spend the same amount renting gears as buying a whole complete set since the first day u dive until now ... haha
yes, getting there surely but slowly... left to get fins, BCD and reg. but a bit malas to get CBD and reg koz high maintainence ie malas to jaga hahahhaa
Weeeeeeeeeee mandi taiks~