Tioman Island:Day02

Day 02
Weather is still good despite a slight downpour last night, but all is good to go. Woke up at 7+, took first meal at resort. Bread,butter,strange jam,coffee & tea. The bum boat left e jetty on time. We went to "feed the fishes" first. We need to rent snorkling gear: Vest & Goggles. I've never tasted sea water that salty since a long time. But the water was clear enough to see all e way to the bottom. Fishes were aplenty. Mostly were the striped blue and yellow parrot fish-like fish. There're one or two rainbow colored ones spotted near the bottom, seemingly waiting for hopelessly sinking bread. But they're not lazy, sometimes they pop to the surface to grab a bite of my bread, which surprised me.



But i've got to carry that special someone during the feeding...



Then there were the corals. We left the fish feeding ground, and anchored near a mini island, or rather it's just a round piece of rock. The corals were growing all around the rock. They were live corals and very colorful. I wanted to dive to the bottom to watch a purple color coral tat looks like a bundle of swaying grass, but it was quite dangerous. haha.



Spotted schools of the same fish we fed just now near this rock too. So some of us (Ho) fed the whole box of lunch that nobody wanted to them. Must have fed them so well that they'll leave the algae and seaweed(?) alone for a long time.

There was a small pool formed by clear spring water from a waterfall in the mountains, the water was freezing! Bet monkeys will be playing in there on any hot day. These were the ones we caught playing right now.




By the way, do they look like couples?



Finally went back near dinner time when the sky darkens...
I'd like to come to tioman again, but not this resort.