After many moons, my Tioman pics! First part, anyway...

I distinctly remember that I promised to put up Tioman pics some time ago, so before I get up to my neck in assignments again, I might as well get to it! So here's a rundown of Carol's four day trip to Tioman during her semester break, with Kathryn and Su Li, some uni buddies. We left on Monday night, the 11th of August, spent five hours or so in the bus (asleep, of course) and reached the dock at about 5am or something, but the boat would only leave for the island at 7am, so we hung around the mamaks there for a while and got to know the local wildlife...

That's a moth on Kathryn's leg.


And another one on Su Li's head! A lot of these little buggers around.


The moths didn't seem to like me too much, but I met up with a friendly cat....


...which Su Li didn't like too much either, so she told it to scat.


After hanging out with feline friends too long, I emulated them by begging for treats


Finally, it was almost time to hop onto our speedboat to Tioman, and here's a pic of us three gals at the jetty.


A long boat ride later, and here we are again at the jetty of Salang, the northern part of Tioman Island.


Look at all the fishies saying hi to us!


First thing to do was of course, get ourselves a cozy little chalet for three!


...with very nice scenery to go with the chalets...


Just so you know, that's the name of where we stayed - the Puteri Salang Inn


Anyway, after our long journey that lasted so many hours, you would think we'd all be pooped and wanna rest for a while, right? WRONG! First thing we did after dumping our stuff was hoping onto a little speedboat and go for a day trip around the island...


...with a boat driver who gave us the ride of our lives (read: super bumpy!)


Our first stop was at a very nice beach...


...where we walked along, enjoyed the sights...


...and came across a nice lagoon-like area...




...which offered us some nice photo opportunities....




...as well as a chance to cool down before heading back to the boat for our next stop on the island.

Our next stop was at a very pretty waterfall, where we got a little bit wet...


A LOT wet...


...and a little bit nutty...


And also got to make friends with a friendly local Lepidopteran (a.k.a. butterfly. :D)






Next, it was back on the boat, where Kat got a nice hairdo


And I was getting ready for our first snorkel!


And here I am in action :D


Ok, so after the snorkelling at a few more places, we head back to Salang, get washed up, have our dinner and laze around on the beach for a while


And also happen to get our hair stuck together!


The next day, we were all so busy snorkelling around the whole day at the beach at Salang, I couldn't be bothered to take many pics that day. BUT we did buy an underwater camera, and here's an idea of what we saw in our underwater escapades. Believe me, the pics do no justice to the real things....



















Hmm...very interestig fish, this one! By the way, the fish in the pic before this....it was a BIG fish, probably more than a metre long. Was pretty cool swimming along that humungo sized fish!
Anywayz, all that snorkelling made us hungry, so we had our lunch and a little rest where we played a game of good ol' fashioned Batu Seremban!



...which attracted the local shopkeepers, who wanted to play with us too!


Fast forward to later that night, when we had our dinner...


...where Kat's dinner seemed to be looking at her...

Well now, me thinks I've had more than enough pictures for one post and I need to get round to doing some uni work, so I shall continue the rest of my pictorial journey some other time. Do knock me on the head if it takes me a long time to finish it off. :P