For the last 3 days have stayed at the Nature Lodge on Sungai Kinabatangan river in Sabah. I was a little unsure about how much I would enjoy this as I am not typically the 'in touch with nature' type...I absolutely loved it!! We stayed in wood huts right on the river and each day had 6am boat ride down the river, a 3 hour trek into the jungle and an hour or so night trek. During the stay we came across a couple of Orang Utan, lots, maybe 7 or 8, pygmy eleph...

Sipidan is fantastic!! Had 3 dives just off the island and saw so much. We swam with sharks (reef and white tip sharks), they were anything between 6 foot to about 10 foot and would swim within a couple of feet of you. Also came across huge turtles that must have been 4 foot across. Loads of beautifully coloured fish, plants and corals...it was wonderful. One of the dive masters took a video of the day which I have...will show it to anyone wo is interested w...

Today has been a royal pain in the arse!! Got up ready for my second day of diving only to be informed that my credit card payment (made yesterday) had been rejected. Tried to phone the credit card company but could not get a connection. Tried to draw cash out from the machine (again) but no joy! The dive centre would not let me go on the second dive before payment was made (which I thought was well out of order)...so I spent most of the morning queueing in t...

Headed off to Mabul today for 3 dives. Really nice island with beautiful beaches, palm trees, and great waters for diving. Swam with turtles, huge scholes of barracuda, sting rays etc. The colours were amazing and it was a great feeling to be diving again. It is such a fantastic feeling to be able to control your movement in 3 dimentions...its like flying and having total control of where you want to be. At first I had a little trouble controling my bouyancy...

Arrived in Semporna and booked into the Sipidan Hotel ready for my first taste of SCUBA for 7 years...The town itself is not much...pretty big market area with lots of nice friendly faces all smiling and saying 'Helloo...how are you?'. There are quite a few tourists here for the diving, which is supposed to be some of the best in the world, but the locals still look at you as though you are an alien. Not sure if it is just me but there is lots of pointing, star...