We started off this whole Sabah trip with a climb up Mt Kinabalu. It was a torturous journey - freaking scary too when descending and really killed my two legs despite my high level of fitness. It took me a week to recover! So, you could imagine how much help I needed when I was donning my scuba gears.
It was perfectly ok in the water. But on land, my legs hurt like crazy and I had no strength to support myself with all the dive gears on me. We went for massage twice just to get rid of the uric acid, which of course, did not help.
Anyway, I am glad to be well now. And the pains did not hinder my dives at all. We had a wonderful time scuba diving Sipadan, Mabul and Kapalai, and not to mention the house reef at seaventures. We even organised our own little "shoot out" one day. We were so beat everyday because we woke up at 5am and by dinner time, we were all really tired. It was nevertheless really fun on this trip with Suz, Ray (had a lot of hilarious underwater miscommunications. I guess it was a Ray + Sotong problem.), Alex and Yvonne (really cute with her around - she attracted Giant Grouper at least).
Sipadan did not disappoint but it was really sad to see many dead corals. The fishes teeming the reefs also became lesser. I hope divers could be more responsible and cautious with the way they dive.
Lastly, I really need to quickly end this blog post so I could go and finish up the last bit of packing and then we have to hop on the boat to leave Seaventures.
I will upload photos when I get back to Singapore because we will be having a busy day rafting tomorrow!
Here's a photo of the rig just for your information. And yes, we stayed (are staying till 10am) here.
