Showing posts with label Adventures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adventures. Show all posts

02 August 2014

Trekking in Sabah - 2

Continue from previous posts.

During the one week trek, each of us has to carry a heavy rucksack. Inside the rucksack, we have our personal belongings and group kits (either radio kit, food for breakfast/lunch/dinner/teabreak, 3 bowls for washing, cooking utensils and Jerry water). Let the pictures do the talking as my laptop went crazy again :(

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One of the campsites – Bamboo camp

 

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A wild frog was resting near the fireplace

 

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It’s a type of fungus that can grow in the dark

 

 

 

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This is the look of the fungus when light shines through

 

 

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I have no idea what plant is this

 

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  A beautiful spider with its spider web

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Never touch these with your bare hand. There are red ants!

 

 

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We did two river crossing to get to Mega Noah Campsite. It was drizzling when we reached at the riverbank and the water was rising slowly. We were quite worried of not being able to reach to the campsite on time, but luckily it all went well :D 

 

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I slept right beside the riverbank. Loving the awesome natural view and the sound of water rushing down from upper stream.

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  Mega Fall. I will tell you more about this fall. It scared the shit out of us when we were there.

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A river beside another campsite. I bathed here. The water was so cold and refreshing.

 

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Never ever touch this thing. It is a centipede and you will feel super itchy once you touched it.

 

 

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Next blogpost I will post more pictures on what we have done during the trek. Good night :)

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17 September 2011

awesome SkyDiving

Aloha, holiday is approaching. Here I am again to share something new. FYI, I was suppose to do skydiving with a group of friends in Cairns. However, due to the windy & unpredictable weather, it has to cancel and thus we decided to do it in Brisbane itself since it’s a no refund policy. Wondering how the tourists would react if they have to bid farewell to the money they have paid for.

After arranging with the related agent the date to “jump”, here we were at Sutton’s beach, Brisbane ready for the cool adventure. Since we were allocated to the later shift, we went for a walk around the place. Instantly, I fell in love with this tranquil and peaceful atmosphere. IMG_7656

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Friends and me who were going to “jump airplane”

When we were doing administration stuffs in the office, the receptionists kept persuading us to change our jump height from 9000ft to higher. Of course this comes with cost. If it’s 14000ft (highest point), we need to pay extra approx $80 but the free fall moment will be longer. At that moment, I intended to do higher since it might be my first and last time doing this (not die okay). However, decided not to in the end because wanted to jump together with my friends Smile

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Peh: was it safe? Am I going to die? bla bla bla. 

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While we were on the way to the airport, I decided to take off my coat because I like Raleigh shirt Open-mouthed smile Every time when I wanted to do some adventurous stunts, I prefer wearing it. But my only concern was it was winter at that time and my shirt was berlubang2 that kind of material, I scared of the coldness or should I say the freezing moment. With short pants some more!

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Gary was his name. I think he was head or something. Hence, we needed to wait till everyone has sat in the plane before we stepped in. Ended up sitting beside the window which has given me a big chill + excitement. Anyhow, the view seen from the airplane down to the earth was freaking beautiful.

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Once we reached at 14000ft which I have no clue at all, Gary opened the door and instantly I was pushed by him to jump without any signal. Here was my cacat terrified expression.

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Ignore the “uglam” look. At the very first moment, I screamed my lung out because the feeling was too awesome to be terrified especially the free falling feeling. It was scarier than riding a superman roller coaster, no kidding!

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My hair couldn’t stop harassing Gary’s face Smile with tongue out

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Gary pointing his camera towards me, so I have to keep posing. If not the pictures taken were not cool. LOL

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See Gary’s face. The impact of the wind was so strong!

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Gary couldn’t stop camwhoring by facing the camera xD

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Msia Boleh! Peh pun boleh!

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Landing. Yiphee!

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One word to say, BAGUS!

The feeling of jumping from 14000ft to 0ft was friggin-awesome though my heart was nearly came out in an exaggerate way.

If you haven’t tried skydiving, give it a go unless you are pregnant or having heart problem. You must be wondering why I wrote 14000ft instead of 9000ft afterwards. Well, we got BONUS. We paid 9000ft fees but jumped at the highest point to match the consistency of other jumpers as well. tak kan the pilot stop at 9000ft for us then proceed to 14000ft for others. If so, gonna waste petrol and time!  I felt good too as I nearly wanna pay the extras for jumping 14000ft. LOL

We got a cert and $10 voucher for lunch before heading to Brisbane city. It’s a worthwhile deal as transportation and food were provided and we paid less than $200 for the jump whereby normally it would cost us approx $350++ for 14000ft.

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Vegetarian burger. I paid $5 after discount. damn cheap kan!

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Sutton’s Beach. Even though if you are not doing any adventurous stunts, this is a nice place to visit.

I have a small wish. wanna jump in NZ & Africa one day. ps: I mean dreaming atm!

till here. have a nice weekends Smile

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