Hello everybody! I'm backk!! XD
I had a nice holiday, very nice but tiring. But unfortunately I won't be able to relate to you the whole holiday, because if I were to do so I would need 5 pages of my blog to finish it off. Let's just get down to the point shall we? I'll just tell you the interesting facts.
Day 1 - Nothing much to say. Travelled to KL and stayed one night there.
Day 2 - Went to Christmas Island via Malaysian airlines. The airplane is taller than the airport, I have to walk down a staircase to get to the airport. You know like those you see in movies from the 1800s? The population of the whole island is ranging form 1000-1200. That's less than the number of students there are in our school folks! Haha. Went for drive after checking in at the Christmas Island Lodge. The road was full of red crabs - and dead ones too. Then went to check up on our divemaster who fitted us with the things we needed for our dives.
Day 3 - Woke up super early to get ready for dive. Divemaster's name - Teruki Hamanaka, but we call him Hama for short. And another divemaster whom we only know as Lynnie. She's a grandmother, who dives with us mind, drives a schoolbus and has a gold tooth. She is by far the coolest grandma on CI. Saw one shark. Eek! Octopus, leopard moray...blahblahblah. XD After two dives, went back to shore, then to Winifred Beach. I had to sit on the bonnet of the car to shoo the red crabs away, and my dad purposely drove into a clump of grass next to the road so I slid off the car. XD Winifred was not much of a beach because we went there during high tide. :P
Day 4 - Went for another two dives. Saw another shark. Eek! And yellow spotted morays, cleaner shrimp etc. Next dive not so interesting except for a baby lionfish. Cute! Then back to shore, went to the Dales. Hugh's Dale, which was a puny waterfall and another dale, can't remember the name. XD
Day 5 - Went for another two dives. On the last one I went to Thundercliffe Cave. I saw another shark at the entrance. Eek! It was really close to me. Anyway, we had to swim into the cave and rise into an air-filled chamber. Then swim through a narrow passage into another chamber, where we dunked our gear and walked to a small room, where we switched off our torches and saw small rare red shrimp that cleaned our feet and hands and lantern fish that could only be seen in the dark. Nice! Hama called it the Sushi Bar. Haha! Appropriate name isn't it? After the dives we went back to shore and then to the Blowholes. We had to walk quite a long way to get there, but it was worth it. At the Blowholes, I got a little bit more adventrous and walked off the path to stand next to the blowhole. But I got pelted with bits of crab when the water spurted out of the hole. For your info, a blowhole occurs when the waves get pushed up into a hole in the rock at the side of a mountain and gets blown up. Something around those lines.
We had to walk back in the dark because my mom wanted to see the sunset even though there wasn't any. It was super scary so we walked fast. What took us 1 hour to walk had now taken us 16 minutes to walk. Heehee!
Day 6 - We had a free day today, but still woke up early. We first went to Dolly and Greta Beach. They were quite nice, at least there was a beach this time. On Dolly, we found some turtle tracks and nests, but no eggs. Sigh...there were alot of hermit crabs though. =D Then we went back and slacked for a while before going to the Grotto. In the guidebook it looked really spectacular. But in real life it wasn't really. It was just a big hole in the ground, but the water was really light blue. So I had a small swim in there with Matt before freezing to death and crawling out with some difficulty.XDD
Day 7 - We had 3 dives today. So tiring!! But I snorkelled with a pod of wild spinner dolphins. I could actually here them sing underwater. Plus I saw 2 of them leap right out of the water. Fabulous! But my dad spotted 2 sharks underneath us, so I was pretty scared because the boat had gone off to herd the dolphins back to us. But nothing happened. Thank goodness!
The third dive was a shore dive, so we had to put on our gear and walk towards the sea. It was horrible! The weight of the tank was squishing me! But at least it doesn't affect me underwater. XD I saw 3 dragon morays that can only be found on CI, 5 lionfish and a baby razorfish.
Day 8 - We went to Lily and Ethel Beach. I spent the whole morning at Lily Beach because it was really lovely and didn't go to Ethel at all. My mom and dad went to Ethel and said there was nothing much to se there. Anyway, back to Lily. The water was light blue and clear like the water in a swimming pool. Haha. But the waves were huge. There were rock pools next to the cliff which was next to the beach, so I waded over there with Matt. The pools were so huge you could sit in them. I was sitting with Matt in a pool, when suddenly this freak wave came and washed over us.
It was so strong I gulped a big mouthful of salt water and got lifted up so I was lying down and got dragged along the rocks with my bro on top of my arm. I gotta tell you, it really HURT! I sustained quite a number of shallow cuts on my arm, some tiny shallow holes in my hand, a long one down my back and some more on the back of my upper thigh. And they were all bleeding, but not that badly. Matt got a short shallow-deep one on his back, one on his arm and one lower down his back.
We just had to soak the cuts in salt water and the was it. Presto! Didn't hurt much after that. So we had to go home and patch ourselves up before going to watch a show at the outdoor cinema. Beverly Hills Chihuahua was showing. It was pretty cute. Thus ended our day. XDD
Day 9 - I went for mass, but they had no priest so one of the villagers led us in prayer. We still received Holy Communion, but there was no sermon. Then we went to Daniel Roux Cave. But it wasn't a cave at all. It was small, locked up and smelled of bat poop. Hahaf! So we went back to the church at 6.00pm to watch the Christmas Play. It was cute! Done by the kids of Christmas Island too.
Dinner was provided by the Malay Association so we finally had a decent meal which did not consist of magi mee, sausages and egg. There was prata, rice, sausage rolls, chicken wings, fish, sweet and sour chicken and lots more.
Day 10 - We left for the Kl today. I went to Times Square. Yay!! I went with my gym friends - Jo-ann, Michelle and her two brothers who weren't gymnasts, Wayne and Shawn. Did you know I actually went there 2 years ago, but couldn't sit on any of the fun rides because I was too short? But I can! Now I can! Yay! I sat on the roller coaster and all the rides except for DNA Mixer. And I saw Lucinda there! Lucinda! Here! Haha I was quite shocked to see her but I waved to her anyway. XDD
Day 11 - Back to Singapore. I'm tired!!! Exhausted! Can't wait to go for training on Friday! (:
~Signing off
Jessica a.k.a Jessie a.k.a Jess a.k.a Fasto Jones
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