Slap Me, Harder: Road Trip 10~13/07/2008

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Day 2 - 11/7/08

Activities of the day: Fish, fishing and angling. It's just that simple.

Rising early from a raki night proves that the drink was too mild to them. We had our breakie at the same old place again since there's no other option is available. We went to the fish farm again right after that, to get more baits, as we are going to fish the whole day.

Checking out of the baits at the far side.

These fishes are too big for us.

We could not afford to waste anymore time and proceed to the first fishing spot immediately. Mostly the whole lake was very calm and very nice view. Great for the anglers and also the one who needed a rest after a long working life, like me. Basically I was lying inside the boat and watch until tired. Sometimes i'll hold the camera and net to help them when there's something up.

Wi taking over the steering, for 2 minutes.

One of the calm fishing spots.

After that, we headed back to mainland for lunch. Problem arised. It was Friday, and also public holiday too in an Islamic state. Everyone is not working, including leisure and food industries, even in the state's biggest tourist attraction, how are we going to have 2020 vision? Lastly we could only found a small hut that were selling nasi ayam only, from the mouth of the only operating convenient store. Nothing else you can eat over there, that's wonderful. Maybe we were too hungry and couldn't find any other option, so the nasi ayam did not receive any complaint from us. We were then brought back to the resort as the boatman needs to get onshore to buy petrol at nearby town. They keep complaining about the recent petrol price hike, and have no choice but pass the burden to consumers. How pathetic is that? They were the most affected group as they need petrol to make a living. Screw those people who said our petrol price is STILL cheaper than neighbours!

We spent sometime at the resort's natural swimming pool. 3 different depths of pools that are available to us. One for the kid, only 2 feet. Another one for adults, about 4-5 feet. The last one for brave ones, the lake open style, depth is unknown.

Supa-men!

Olympic long jump, with ghost hand behind.

We moved on the our next fishing spot with our boatman arrives very late. and he promised to stay later of the night. Mainly we killed the day with fishing only, in different locations.

Daren's catch.

Clever Toman bit the tail of the bait without hitting the hook.

Michelin man = safe roadtrip.

Gavin's catch.

"Switching jobs, wise move?"

Gavin's second catch

Kim's catch.

Lastly we converted our catching to our dinner. The biggest one we go for making soup and the rest smaller one we fried it. The resort kitchen charged us RM5 for processing each fish, quite reasonable actually. I didn't join them for the dinner because I went to have a very long rest.

we fish for our dinner.

Finally its absinthe time. All of them look excited and played with it rather than drinking it.

After all, Gavin and Jeremy went for night fishing as the boatman agreed to bring them out for free. The others were just like me, sleep all the way to morning.