Treats from Japan!

Tokyo Bananas :P

End of Season Diving

This final trip to Tioman for an "end of season dive" had it's fair share of ups and downs. Weather was horrible through out and that contributed to horrible visibility for all dives on the first day. Water got so choppy that JA lost her lunch & breakfast to the fish.

The highlights, though, more than made up for it. This time around we saw....

1. Blue Spotted Stingray X3
2. Batfish
3. Angelfish
4. Clownfish (of course)
5. Dogface Pufferfish
6. Maroon Pufferfish
7. Giant Groupa (this one was a MONSTER, it was as big as my upper torso)
8. Sucker fish (the kind you see attached to large fish like sharks and whales)

This encounter with the Sucker fish was quite interesting. It thought our dive group was a pack of big predator fish and tried to attach itself to us. When one of the girls in the group felt something ticklish on her thigh and looked back, she screamed so loudly the whole group could hear it. XD

9. A huge pod of dolphins. Links to the video here
10. Greenback Turtle, twice!

All in all it was yet another fantastic experience and reaffirmed my passion for diving. I am looking further aboard for my future dives and hope to see different things from the usual sights in Tioman. Just Langkawi was a great excursion and that is something I hope to do more often.