Date: 8th July 2011

Place: Kota Kinabalu

Weather: Really Sunny

Today we were going to do the island trip that we were supposed to do the day before. The boat ride over there was great it was really fast and bumpy. The islands were really pretty, I didn't think they would be anything like that since Kota Kinabalu isn't a great city. The water was really clear and you could see all the fish.

We found a really private part of the beach where we were basically the only people. After lying in the shade for a little while we both went for a swim. Seeing how clear it was got me really excited about diving because before then I hadn't expected the visibility to be great since it was a city. Whilst we were sat in the water loads of little fish kept surrounding us. I decided to try to sit there with them to get over my fear of fish but then they started nipping at me so I swished around to get them to go away.

On the way back to getting the boat I stood in the water and looked at my feet. If the water hadn't been moving you wouldn't have known there was any over my feet. We looked at some more of the fish on the pier. There were some long thin ones which were quite weird.

We decided to try the night market again tonight but it turned out to not do food so we head to the other end of the city that we hadn't been to. We found a restaurant that did sizzling food plates. It was so tasty and full of veg and meat which we really needed since the mountain climb was the next day. After that we went for an explore around the nightlife area which looked really nice and lit up even though it was early. There's a club called Bed there which obviously everyone jokes about saying do you want to come to Bed with me.

We decided to skip Bed and had a coffee and muffin instead for desert. That night I tried to download some motivational songs for my ipod but the internet connection was too slow and none of them downloaded.