Having spent one night in Terrangganu we eventually got our bus to Kuala Besut and a boat to Paula Perhentian Kecil. We ended up getting a small basic hut with just a fan and shared bathroom at a place called rock gardens. It was a bit of a faf climbing up their path but I guess it meant it was cooler because of the breeze and shade from the trees.

The island was probably the most "conventionally pretty" island yet, with perfectly White sands and the clearest water I've seen ever! We spent our first day swimming at the beach and checking out some things today on the island. We ended up booking a dive forth following afternoon!

Dive 1: Sugar Wreck- it gets it's name for obvious reasons, it was a cargo ship carrying thousands of sugar when I was sunk due to the monsoon rain! It was by far the best dive I've done ever! It was a 65meter ship which had sunk on it's side. The cargo doors on the deck had broken off which meant we could actually swim through the ship and check out the air pocket inside. We had our heads out of water and talking yet we were 19meters down! We saw some huge barracuda, giant puffer fish and a bamboo shark. The ship has been there for ages so it literally looked like the titanic when they dived down at the end of the film and have a look at it. Quite often we had to hold on to the hand rails because of the ridiculously strong current on one side!

We then had one day where we moved accommodation to the other side of the island, and swam out to a fishing pontoon and larks about there. I then decided to do another dive the next day seeing as they're only £14-£16, and convinced Matt to do one too.

Dive 2: The Temple of the Sea- this was a huge coral pinnacle that went 25m down and poked out the top of the water at the top. There was an unbelievable amount of fish! It wasn't as cool as swimming through the boat but there was much more life down there! More bamboo sharks, barracuda big schools of fish that you could separate buying swimming through them. Was a great dive and glad we did it. Shame we didn't see a different type of shark, or a sea turtle.

Today we've decided to catch a boat back to the mainland, and a night bus down to Mersing on the south eastern coast where tomorrow we'll get a boat hopefully to the Tioman Island, where again we have no clue what to expect has we haven't read about it, or researched online as there is barely any Internet on the islands. Hopefully spend a few nights on the Tioman islands, before going back to Kuala Lumpur for our flight to Jakarta on the 20th.