Sipadan Trip '07

Part 3

Day 3

Early in the morning.....bout 6am......had our breakfast and went to Sipadan dive sites without wasting any time.....went to the island first to pass the entrance permits to the guards there......then...here we go!

1st dive in Sipadan : Coral Garden to Barracuda Point

2nd dive in Sipadan : Drop Off

Our cameralady, Shock, will shoot the video in Sipadan today for us.....of course we were the main characters in the video for the very first time......

A school of batfish hanging around at 5m underwater.....few dozens of them swimming gracefully together.....maybe searching for food but for sure, they won't care bout their surroundings unless being attacked....

Besides that, a school of jackfish can be found at 5m underwater in the other site.......so amazing.....lots of them forming a circle below sunshine......I swim towards the fish and ended up in the middle of their 'circle'...... incredible.....surrounding by the fish......wow!.....just like a part of them.....

Any dive sites there.....or everywhere once we dive into underwater, we definitely will see lots of anthias......different colors.....different sizes of anthias......swimming against the current in swallow water.....

Another angelfish which might no opportunity to encounter in other places.....hanging around there in singly or sometimes pairs.....

Saw two leopard sharks during the 1st dive......one of them which was a giantic size swim gracefully along the reef wall up and down and then dissappeared into deep blue sea.....it just happened in front of me......

Nudibranch......different shapes......different colors......so beautiful!.....need to focus a lot to search those small or maybe tiny marine creatures.....

Diving has higher chances to encounter some moray eels .....such as yellow eels and whited-eye eels.....just have to wait for them to come from their hidden places, open their mouth and showed their sharp teeth in front of you.....


Few types of hawkfishes have been discovered throughout the dives today in Sipadan......such as longnose hawkish, freckled hawkfish, dwarf hawkfish n etc.....


Besides that, just around 5m underwater in Sipadan can easily spotted different shoal of diffrent kind of sweetlips like sub-adult polkadot sweetlips and many-lined sweetlips.....

Awesome! Awesome! the sceneries in Sipadan make us speechless......what a amazing underwaterworld.....with different kinds of hard and sift corals......such as staghorn, table corals and etc.....accompanied by marine fishes......for example.....damsels, anthias, chromis, wrasses and etc.....along with colorful seafans and seafeathers......

For your info, after every dive in Sipadan.....we will take a break in the island.....having sandwiches, cakes, coffee, tea and etc....before we continue the next dive......

After that, we went to seaventures platform again for another great dive......found moray eels, nudibranch, giant trevallies, fusiliers and etc......

Another sunset dive....another dive site in Mabul.......Froggy Lair....mucky dive...and of course the visibility was quite bad.....wooden artificial reef.....divemaster brought us to see one giant grouper hanging at the top of the wooden artificial reef.....

Encounter some very beautiful and colorful nudibranch camourflage in the corals......busy taking pics of those nudibranch.....left behind by the group.....so decided dive alone for another couple of minutes and ascent.....after that followed by the rest of the divers not further away who stayed longer underwater without me.....everyone dissapointed cause failed to find any frogfish or anglerfish there....

Not panic when left behind.....and I did my own dive by myself.....taking my own sweet time.....taking pics..... hahaha.....sounds crazy......

After dinner, some of us went for night dive bout 9pm at the house reef under the resort.....spotted some invertebrates walking here and there.....searching for food while the fish sleeping......parrotfish sleeping at the side of hard corals....blenny hide itself inside the hole but not its head.....hermitcrabs hanging around in the dark....crabs and shrimps coming out for feeding.....seaworm waiting for food throughout the day.....

All the dives that we had for today......so much fun and enjoyed ourselves so much.....we also watched our very own Sipadan video that night and view some pics in the notebook before......let's call it a day!

Photographer : Johnny