Scuba Evaluation Dive @ Pulau Aur ( 20/7 - 22/7 ) : Day 1

Last Sunday i went for my Scuba Evaluation Dive at Pulau Aur.
Pulau Aur is an island 65km East of Mersing jetty, Johor ; near to Pulau Tioman.

Pulau Aur is the island furthest from the Peninsula that forms part of the Johor Marine Park.
This IUCN ( World Conservation Union ) catagory II marine park spans 9745 hectares, the 4th largest in M'sia.
Pulau Aur's water are calm and clear so it becomes a popular site for those learning to dive.

I received my instructor's sms a month ago about this trip and jumped on the opportunity at once,
as i couldnt make it to the previous trips.
And i've missed so many chances of diving at Sabah & Lang Tengah so i muz get my diving license this time.

And so, I attended the meeting days before the trip to get to know the other members who're joining.
There will be 11 person including me ( minus the instructor ).
And out of the 11 people , there are only 2 girls.
And 7 out of 11 are chinese.

I followed Asri ( the other girl ) and Kwok Ping ( in short, Wee ) to Mersing Jetty.
Asri's bf rented a kancil and send us there.
The journey to Mersing took 2 and half hours and my, it was uncomfortable inside the car as there are 5 people inside it.

We boarded our speedboat at our own private jetty around 5.30pm.

the top of our speedboat @ Mersing Jetty.

It's a long long journey...

The journey from Mersing jetty to Pulau Aur took 1 and a half hour.
Which was damn long...
My Digi yellowman didn't follow me all the way to Pulau Aur though...
Sigh. Stupid Digi.
Only Maxis worked well on Pulau Aur.


My 1st impression of Pulau Aur is that it looks so...."Jurassic".
I mean, i feel like i'm back to the dinosaur era and i wont feel surprised if i see a long-necked dinosaur eating leaves from the tree....

see, see ! dinosaur! =P

new species -stone dinosaur... =P

The only village of Pulau Aur.

Waiting for the transfer-boat.

the island is very coconut-ty.

The time we reached Pulau Aur is already around 7pm.

Our Chalet - Atlantis Bay Resort.

The dining area + another small chalet. That's all of Atlantis Bay 'Resort'. =.=lll

nice view from the balcony of my room...

There are 4 rooms which we divided ourselves into them.
I shared a room with Asri since we were the only girls there.
The room is soooooo damn small and worst than Pulau Lang Tengah's.
The electricity is only available from around 7pm to 9am.
Well, i expected the room to be more or less like Lang Tengah's but....well, i'm expecting too high.

3 double-decker in 1 small room. ( taken from the door...imagine how small the room is )

We had dinner after finish packing.
The food there was nice.
We are the only tourist there so we have the whole place to ourselves ^^
Our instructor always choosed sunday evening so that we don't have to be crampled with the other tourists.
One thing i liked about this place is that there is a magazine corner with lots of Scuba magazine. ^^
I can read for free! yay!

After dinner we tried out our wet suit and fins.
The wet suit is sooooooo damn hard to wear.
I nearly rubber-burnt my knuckles trying so hard to pull my wet suit up.

trying on the fins.

I slept early that night as we need to wake up at 7am the next day.
Plus i cant even use my hp..
sigh.
This is the 1st time i have to live without my hp...and him.
kind of torturing actually.....
But well, i managed to survive thru it.... =p

*to be continued*