This is my last full day in Malaysia, so I decided that I would splash out a bit and go on the longest island to island zipline in the world!
I headed to the pier for around 1115h with a view to getting the 1130h boat, but found that it was sold out, so I settled for the 1230h one, and headed to a nearby restaurant to get some nasi goreng.
This was the greasiest so far in all of Malaysia and I didn't really enjoy it that much, but it was food so I ate it all
The boat had some loud music playing to cover the sound of the engines, and I thought that I should have probably taken some ear protection.
I chatted with some young guys who were from the UK, and they were pretty amazed at the fact I had been travelling so long. We shared ideas of what we were going to do on the island, including the zipline, and then went our own ways after reaching the island.
I tried to find the zipline point by walking along a path on the island, and soon realised that it was the end island of the trip, so made my way back to the pier where I found the ticketing place and booked on, getting on the boat to the other island and heading to the top of the line.
There was a couple ahead of me, who I videod completing the line, before harnessing up myself and sliding down.
It was a fairly quick journey, and probably the most expensive minute I had done so far on my journey, but it was great to be above the water going between the islands seeing the view.
Once I reached the other end, after an abrupt stop at the end, I headed to the beach for snorkelling and tried to find the locker rooms so I could leave my back and clothes in a more secure location.
Nobody was at the locker area however so I headed back, and just changed in to my swimming stuff and left the bag behind a log, and went in to the sea.
There were quite a lot of fish around, and I enjoyed the time doing some free diving to get to a piece of coral, where I spotted a lionfish. There were a couple of scuba divers, who appeared to be on an introduction to diving type dive, and I tried to sign to the instructor about the lionfish but he didn't understand my signals. I also suspect in retrospect that the introduction to diving experience may have been reduced by seeing someone down there with no equipment.
After they left, I went to the other side of the coral where they had been looking at, and found there was another lionfish on that side too!
I spent more time swimming around and taking photos, seeing some needle fish and taking photos with the action cam, before I started to feel that I should probably get out of the water and get ready to go back.
This turned out to be a good decision, as after showering and getting sorted, it was about time to get the last boat back!
I headed back to the hostel, and uploaded the photos and videos from the cam, and sorted out my bags ready for the flight to Manila.
While I was there, Jane from the Philippines arrived back from Brunei, and since she was on the same flight, we arranged that we would share a taxi to the airport to save on costs.