Redang; SubhanaAllah

Last weekend hubby and me followed my colleagues went to Redang for a little break. And it turns out to be a nice and memorable vacation that actually I didn't quite expect. Thanks a lot to mr organizer and our activity organizer shah, muza and sayuth for making the trip ermm overwhelming. hehe  Me and hubby had a really good time.

So we made our move separately from the others since we were from Putrajaya. It took about 6 hours to reach the state of Terengganu. And to tell the truth this is my first visit to pantai timur after... let me see 20 years . I went there last with my family when I was little. so for the first time that garmin we bought serve a good purpose.  We spent the night at badar's house, whos joining the trip as well, and headed to Redang the next morning. The road trip was really exhausting that maybe to go by flight is not a very bad idea after all. Eventho I was not the one driving. hehe.

1st day
I was worried about getting seasick at first and took the seasick pill. But as the consequence of exhaustion all of us just slept all the way on the ferry trip to the island.

Redang really wowed me. The white beach. The totally clear blue water that make you see all the fishes and I felt like a jakun a bit. . Our chalet were not that fancy since the sole purpose to go there was.... snorkeling! yeayy!

So at noon we started the first snorkeling trip and yup I was a freaking first timer. I had planned on what to wear beforehand since it quite bugged me how will I snorkel as a good muslimah. hehe. So I did some research on what are the girls wearing when snorkeling. What I found mostly wear the bawal tudung and at some point it could come off when you were in the water. So I decided to wear the ekin kind of tudung and muza wear this syria tudung which really looked nice on her and suit for swimming too.

So I think that ekin tudung really made my trip a whole lot easier. The first location we went to was in open sea (which I first heard as opency; err ape maksud die ek. heh). And it wasn't that bad  eventho I can't swim. hehe. but the life jacket and of course hubby helped to pull me around. hehe. So we were there looking at the coral and the fish. and it was so amazinggg to look at. It's like a whole different world down there; living peacefully. Ok I might sound so dramatic but looking at the bottom of the sea was really mesmerizing. Makes me awe to the greatness of Allah. So I was like talking through the goggle thing to hubby and he didn't really give attention and it made me wonder. Then I realized that he was exhausted by keep swimming and tagging me along and the coral was not in his priority at the moment. hehe Thank you hubby! I made a promise to myself to learn swimming. Tapi.. bile? isk.

After dinner we played bunch of games starting with treasure hunt, then guess-what-song then build-anything-u-like-with-trashes-around-you.. hehe. . And it was fun! I can't really remember the last time I played all these games.

So after the games we laid down on the beach watching the stars. Well.. it started off with gossiping actually .  Anyway there was no clouds and no pollution I guess, so the sky was really clear and you could see all the stars I sure glad I had my contact lenses on. But I should have had my camera. Because.. guess what we got to see a shooting star! for the first time in my life. well actually I saw it twice. And people said make a wish if you see one. But of course I didn't believe that. hehe.

Ok of course I did not see it this big. But it's really cool right! *picture from google. heh*


2nd day
We rent an underwater camera for 50RM (from 9am to 6pm if  I'm not mistaken) I taught at first so that we could take pictures of coral, fishes and stuff. But in the end the camera was full of our pictures of course.   It was really worth it though. So I have a favorite picture:  

We should have rent this camera earlier. So on this second day we went to two places for snorkeling. And finished all 150+ snaps we had with that camera. I finally got to see baby sharks after dok jealous with jimi and others who got to see them the day before. They kind of playing near the beach I guess. And they didn't bite luckily. This boy who one of the boat crew said the baby sharks come near the beach around 4pm, thats when you could see them. Later around 5 their mother (mak shark katenye) will call them back.  and I had a sudden shudder when he said that.

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Aiyo times up. Need to get back to work. All in all the trip went really well. Alhamdulillah.. We managed to have a little vacation in the middle of the hassling of work.   huhuhu...

*pictures credit to siti fatimah and sayuth.