On 24 and 25 October 2009, I joined Ah Hung and a group of divers to Pulau Tioman for, well, cleaning up human mess. This is the first time I participated in Project AWARE. You could call us 'cleaner' because the purpose of us being there was to clean up the beach and seabed. Pick up rubbishes that were conveniently throw away by careless human.
Here are some photos of the event.
Mersing Jetty. Waiting to be on board.
View from the resort's restaurant. What a lovely view eh!
Signing the Release Form. It means dive at your own risk. You die at nobody's responsibility.
Nice ar? Random shots around the beach.
After diving and showered, I took a walk on the beach that is right outside of my room. Cooling sandy beach massaging my foot. Little girl has so much fun at the beach.
The sun shying away from the beach. Have you ever seen an Astro tree before? Now you have!
Random shots.
Well, low tide and sunset.
When facing sun, you get sunset shot. When facing the same direction with the sun, you get the clear blue sky and beach shot. What a contrast.
It is a small village and very very very quiet at night.
So yes, we cleaned up a lot and all these bags of rubbish have to be categorized, (paper, plastic, bottle, etc), recorded, disposed and the information gathered send over to Project AWARE's HQ for analysis and compilation.
Group photo before we depart home.
Anyway, we stayed at Coral Reel Holiday's in Tekek Village. Nothing fancy there. The resort is not really well-maintained to my opinion but what the heck! We are not picky after all, this is not supposed to be a holiday trip.
The weird thing that I have encountered in the trip was a 'bat tree' in the village. Can you imagine a tree that is full of bats perching upside down making bird-like sound under the broad day light? Or it is just me who foolishly think that bats hide only in the dark cage? Sorry, no photo for that.
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