I don't really have all that much to write about for here unfortunately. After arriving in KK my cold from earlier in Bangkok started to re-emerge and I was feeling pretty shit.
I spent three nights on a beach resort, a one and a half hour drive from KK. I spent most of that time in bed sleeping, instead of out in the water diving like I would have liked!
Still, the place and view was nice. (When the generator was on and there was electricity...)
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From here I went back to KK for one night before making the journey across the state to Sandakan, home of the Sepilok Orang-utan rehabilitation centre for
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After Sandakan I headed back to KK to finally do some diving! I was taken out to an island off the coast near KK, where the majority of the dive shops operate from. Unfortunately my GoPro needs repair and I couldn't get any footage of the dives.
I did my first beach dive, wading in from the beach and making our way out to deeper waters. I saw what is up there with the coolest thing I'd seen diving; stingrays would bury themselves in the sand, upon swimming near them they would rustle off the sand and start swimming away. I'd never seen so many stingrays out in the open before!
The second dive was off a small boat, very different to what I'm used to diving off in Koh Tao. Once more, my first backward seated entry into the water. From here we swam around a man-made pontoon surrounded by corals. I didn't really see all that much on this dive unfortunately.
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My last day in Sabah was spent in my hostel... getting a tattoo!
I finally decided to get what I had wanted since I started riding the bike through Vietnam - a Honda Win tattoo! It was a little painful at times, but for $50aud I'm happy with it!
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