12 am- Departed to Mersing via Karak highway. I drove from KL till Gambang R&R and the rest, Remy took over. Maniza….TIDO!!!…hehehe…Passed Muadzam Shah and Nana’s house was in my mind.
6 am- Arrived Mersing and lepak2 while waiting for abang Gee and the other Aur diver clan. Around 7, board on the speedboat and chow to Pulau Aur. Took around 1 hour 30 minutes…or maybe 2 hours…can’t remember. Passed through several islands, Pulau Kecil, Pulau Besar, Pulau Tinggi and some other islands I couldn’t recall the names. By the way, met new experienced diver including my future abang ipar (Abg Gee), uncle Urchin, Ajis, Arip and Psha. Wallaaa….Psha is the youngest but didn’t think she is the youngest in the group at first. Arrived Aur, hang out at the dive centre, located at the Atlantis bay. Checked in our room. Aur is beautiful…really beautiful. Next
to Aur is Pulau Dayang. Pulau Dayang looked nice in pictures. We relaxed, had lunch and started our 1st dive around noon.
1st divesite was the housereef. Ermm…sandy bottom, occasional beds of corals, mild current so did a bit of drift dive. NICE!! The nicest, manage to swim along a turtle and get a nice picture and video of it. Not that big turtle though.
Since it is impossible to state all dives in this blog, I will outline the memorable dive sites I dove in.
I remember we dove at The Pinnacles 2.
Well, it was such a disastrous when Uncle Urchin was finning that fast that I almost lost my breath. Mild to strong current was there that we have to cross the current to get to the spot. I don’t know what was at the spot so I just simply follow, and of course I don’t want to be left behind. I almost give-up and planned to ascend but out of nowhere, I felt someone pulled my BCD. I guess it must be Arif. A little better though I felt like vomiting due to abrupt physiological change. Whatever it is, I didn’t really remember seeing any interesting creatures.
Other dive was at Pulau Lang. I love this site because I saw many beautiful nudibranchs, perfect for my main purpose of diving. Not only that, the sun was shining brightly that everything looked beautiful down there. I could recall the presence of colonies of Christmas Tree worms (a type of tube worm anyway). It was really nice. There was also a Mooray eel and blue-spotted stingray hiding under the within the grooves. It’s really big I tell you. The clownfishes were cute and I can say, they didn’t feel scared in the presence of divers. I played with the clownfishes and they kept on moving in and out of their ‘home’..like playing hide and seek.
Next dive was at the Rayner’s Rock. This site is cool. It was just that I couldn’t bring my digicam along because the housing safety clip got cracked, so I don’t want to risk the digicam. Due to this, I missed to snap the pictures of 2 types of colorful nudibranchs and that really ruin my day. I was a little bit moody that time so I don’t bother to look around or to look for more nudibranchs. There was mild current but didn’t affect me at all. It’s lovely to drift dive at this site.
Our nightdive was at Crocodile Rock. Sounds scary and no idea why the locals gave such name. Nightdive should be that deep but I know these guys used to dive deeper than that. It was so dark and I really got confused, got slept by somebody’s fin out of nowhere, got lost and got blurred. I was hoping to see
something nice but in this condition, I’m not really in mood to explore. There was a Mooray eel which I thought cream or white in color, instead of dark brown. It was really big and I was shocked at first. Other than that, that was a fish lying on its side, on the side. It was sleeping I guess. We saw a big turtle and Remy tried to grab and dove while grabbing on it but the turtle was a little fast. I tried to capture pictures but again,it was dark and I was confused. It was disgusting to see a lot of worm-like creatures and bugs when the torch lighted the dark. Actually, I expected to see more nocturnal creatures but it was not my day.
We dove at Pulau Dayang as well where there is a wreck lying down at almost 30 m depth. It was almost sunset and it looked terrible down there. I believe it would be a lot more better when there was sunlight to assist my visual when the water visibility was not that good. But it was ok I guess.
Last but not least, we dove at Pulau Pinang. There were a lot of fishes but since I was not feel that good, I didn’t really care with the fishes or anything. I found only typical nudibranchs which I can say, I found them at almost all dive sites I went before.
This trip is awesome but will be a lot more better if I went with the right people at the right time. At least I manage to do more than 10 dives in 4 days time. RM690 was a very good deal and diving with ‘crazy’ people was just the best way to enhance and improve diving experience.
6 am- Arrived Mersing and lepak2 while waiting for abang Gee and the other Aur diver clan. Around 7, board on the speedboat and chow to Pulau Aur. Took around 1 hour 30 minutes…or maybe 2 hours…can’t remember. Passed through several islands, Pulau Kecil, Pulau Besar, Pulau Tinggi and some other islands I couldn’t recall the names. By the way, met new experienced diver including my future abang ipar (Abg Gee), uncle Urchin, Ajis, Arip and Psha. Wallaaa….Psha is the youngest but didn’t think she is the youngest in the group at first. Arrived Aur, hang out at the dive centre, located at the Atlantis bay. Checked in our room. Aur is beautiful…really beautiful. Next
to Aur is Pulau Dayang. Pulau Dayang looked nice in pictures. We relaxed, had lunch and started our 1st dive around noon.
1st divesite was the housereef. Ermm…sandy bottom, occasional beds of corals, mild current so did a bit of drift dive. NICE!! The nicest, manage to swim along a turtle and get a nice picture and video of it. Not that big turtle though.Since it is impossible to state all dives in this blog, I will outline the memorable dive sites I dove in.
I remember we dove at The Pinnacles 2.
Well, it was such a disastrous when Uncle Urchin was finning that fast that I almost lost my breath. Mild to strong current was there that we have to cross the current to get to the spot. I don’t know what was at the spot so I just simply follow, and of course I don’t want to be left behind. I almost give-up and planned to ascend but out of nowhere, I felt someone pulled my BCD. I guess it must be Arif. A little better though I felt like vomiting due to abrupt physiological change. Whatever it is, I didn’t really remember seeing any interesting creatures.
Other dive was at Pulau Lang. I love this site because I saw many beautiful nudibranchs, perfect for my main purpose of diving. Not only that, the sun was shining brightly that everything looked beautiful down there. I could recall the presence of colonies of Christmas Tree worms (a type of tube worm anyway). It was really nice. There was also a Mooray eel and blue-spotted stingray hiding under the within the grooves. It’s really big I tell you. The clownfishes were cute and I can say, they didn’t feel scared in the presence of divers. I played with the clownfishes and they kept on moving in and out of their ‘home’..like playing hide and seek. 
Our nightdive was at Crocodile Rock. Sounds scary and no idea why the locals gave such name. Nightdive should be that deep but I know these guys used to dive deeper than that. It was so dark and I really got confused, got slept by somebody’s fin out of nowhere, got lost and got blurred. I was hoping to see
something nice but in this condition, I’m not really in mood to explore. There was a Mooray eel which I thought cream or white in color, instead of dark brown. It was really big and I was shocked at first. Other than that, that was a fish lying on its side, on the side. It was sleeping I guess. We saw a big turtle and Remy tried to grab and dove while grabbing on it but the turtle was a little fast. I tried to capture pictures but again,it was dark and I was confused. It was disgusting to see a lot of worm-like creatures and bugs when the torch lighted the dark. Actually, I expected to see more nocturnal creatures but it was not my day. We dove at Pulau Dayang as well where there is a wreck lying down at almost 30 m depth. It was almost sunset and it looked terrible down there. I believe it would be a lot more better when there was sunlight to assist my visual when the water visibility was not that good. But it was ok I guess.
Last but not least, we dove at Pulau Pinang. There were a lot of fishes but since I was not feel that good, I didn’t really care with the fishes or anything. I found only typical nudibranchs which I can say, I found them at almost all dive sites I went before. This trip is awesome but will be a lot more better if I went with the right people at the right time. At least I manage to do more than 10 dives in 4 days time. RM690 was a very good deal and diving with ‘crazy’ people was just the best way to enhance and improve diving experience.
