Friday, 11 June 2010
It’s the last full day of the holiday. We were going to treat ourselves to a bit of a sleep-in, but the sun was shining straight through the window so we got up earlier than expected. We went for our last coffees and buns at our favourite little kopitiam; the waitress (we [ more... ]
Thursday, 10 June 2010
For whatever reason we had a restless night’s sleep and awoke less than refreshed to make the ferry crossing back to KK. We packed our stuff, checked out of the hotel and headed down to the ferry terminal to get our tickets. The ticketing office was closed when we arrived, the sign [ more... ]
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Up and packed for a moving day. It is sad to leave the diving of Miri, but we need to get to Kota Kinabalu for our flight home. The weather looked similar to the last few days, so the diving would be good – damn.
We had morning coffees at our usual brekkie [ more... ]
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
The storms did abate relatively early during the night, but the in the morning the skies were scattered with thick clouds and the winds were still fresh, but blowing offshore. We had coffee in the room then went to the lobby to find our driver already there and waiting for us. At [ more... ]
Monday, 7 June 2010
Well the weather doesn’t want to play the game for us – there was thunderstorms most of the night and some prolonged heavy rain, not that Scott woke up to see/hear it. The morning sky was jet black and the winds were still up, but luckily blowing offshore.
We went for our coffee [ more... ]
Sunday, 6 June 2010
We headed out for a morning coffee and the weather had improved overnight and our driver was spot on time again. At the marina, the boat was ready for us, but today we would be diving in the company of four guys working with Shell in Brunei.
The boat departed the marina and [ more... ]
Saturday, 5 June 2010
We woke up this morning and looked out the hotel window to see grey skies, ominous looking clouds, rain on the horizon and trees swaying in breeze – not good signs for diving. We prepared ourselves anyway, then popped into a local eatery for our morning coffee, then back to the hotel [ more... ]
Friday, 4 June 2010
After our insect disturbed night’s sleep we were all up early and headed off for coffee to fuel our upcoming journey to the Miri/Buntulu junction. We had hired a driver the night before, as there doesn’t appear to be any public transport from Belaga to anywhere, other than by ferry and we [ more... ]
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Well this morning did not start well. Huge thunderstorms all night that continued as we left the hotel and grabbed a morning teeth rotting coffee. We headed to the boat ferry terminal to buy a ticket for the Belaga ferry and were directed to the other boat ferry terminal where there was [ more... ]
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
We were able to have a lie in this morning as there are boats every half hour to Kapit, so we wandered to the Fortunate Cafe for a Kopi Susu and then headed to the boat terminal. We were given the choice of 1st class, business class or economy for our boat [ more... ]