Mabul and Sipadan diving trip highlights

Well, let’s pick up where I left off…

My trip to Malaysia was an experience of a lifetime. From diving the most amazing dive sites of my life, to meeting fantastic and hopefully lifelong friends, and loving every minute of it. Here are some highlights.

First, the diving:

I gotta start with a selfie

Lots to see, including this lionfish

Turtles were everywhere – and massive

So I got a few cheeky shots

Though this guys was sleepy

These guys were having no part and tried attacking my mask

At Sipadan, there are tornadoes of 3 -4 feet long barracuda – this is in the tornado

The tornado from a distance

Also some massive swarms of jacks

Including a few sharks looking for lunch

All in, we saw about 40 sharks. Here are some up close

A few more circled around us

It was really the turtles that were friendly

And not scared of us in the least

The fish were incredible too

With more swarms of barracuda

Some sleepy sharks

Curious clownfish

And inquisitive eels

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Above water, we passed our time taking in some sun

And collecting hermit crabs

This guy had questionable choices in housing

So we got them together and had races.

Run baby run!

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Above water, it was about having some fun and enjoying ourselves.

Watching the days’ dive footage

With many games of Farkle to follow

Some banter

And celebrating our devil ray sighting

 having a few beers

All with new friends

Some more interesting than others…

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On the downtime, there was time to explore Mabul

Seeing the various resorts with over water bungalows

Meeting a few of the domestic animals

And most importantly, lounging on our private beach

Also seeing how the turtle hatcheries were going

Shh, they’re sleeping.

That’s all for my 5 days on Mabul

It’s back across the countryside past the palm plantations

And on to a flight to Kota Kinabalu

For a few more days in the sun!

More to come on the next highlight – still so much to show…