Sunday 10th August
We have arrived at
our final rally destination, Tawau. The
schedule has changed so many times I really have no idea what happens next… All
a Magical Mystery Tour…
Some of the boats
are still anchored outside the Sipadan Mangrove Resort. We only stayed there one night. As far as I am concerned, any resort or
destination with mangrove in the
title means… MOSQUITOES and Other Bitey
Insects. Dear Emma spent many hours
gazing intently into the brown water, certain she could see crocodiles. She was just slightly disappointed but never
mind! There maybe other croc opps!
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| Frigate birds on the fish attractors (fish farms?) along the way |
Semporna gave us
such a good opportunity, to be tied up to a jetty right in the centre of
town. Emma and Lindsay had already had a
few days there. They hadn’t realise that
really there is nothing specifically thrilling about Semporna… It is a good
place to catch boats to dive resorts on the islands, and there are a few good
little restaurants and a Giant supermarket which sells…beer! And cheese!
On our last
morning John suddenly called to me – I was in the depths of the kitchen doing
something boring. OTTER!! he shouted. I clickety clicked away with my camera,
delighted. Until suddenly…oh dear…it
wasn’t an otter at all, it was a dear little puppy, drowning… Before John (or
I) could leap into the (filthy) water, a local dive shop bloke and plunged in
to hoick the poor little thing out onto shore, gasping.
Maritim Malaysia
escorted us today. They were quite
desperately keen to get onto the boat for a photo… NOT of me. Of Our Emma, in her black bikini!
Leo, in Hobart,
has been researching insects of Borneo…
The internet seems
to be working; I must strike while the iron, so to speak, is hot!
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