Friday, March 12, 2010

Unpleasant Trip to Sandakan

Nice view of the tallest mountain in SEA - Mt.Kinabalu...........
Immediately after the monsoon season, I went to Sandakan for Black Bass fishing, which I had planned earlier on............... But, we were struck with bad news whereby the mother boat has an engine trouble and it is still in the midst of repair.........
Waiting for our boat at the Jetty near the fish market....... We waited and waited........ Finally we were able to move out in the night. But, when I woke up in the morning, the mother boat had stopped in the middle of the way to the fishing ground....... Aaargh!!! Not again!!! Look at the oil that has spilled out from the engine........And the leakage was traced to the engine part and it was not repairable on the spot........... BAD LUCK!!.................... The boatman called for spare parts, but it were only available 2 days later.......... We did not have any choice but to park the mother boat somewhere and changed plans using the small boats to fish nearby instead of our actual destination......... These are the only catches nearby area............ a baby jack...........
An Archer fish...........
And one table sized Grouper............. very SAD!!!After searching and searching for a better ground we had travelled quite a distance from the mother boat........... when time came for us to go back, our boat ran out of fuel....... after waving 30 minutes frantically with the life jackets, a fishing boat near by saw us and came to our help.......... Aaargh!! How much more bad luck to come???...........After the meal the next day, we decided to go back to Sandakan town using the small boat to get rest and wait for our flight back to KL...............It took us 2 hours plus with the small speed boat to come to town............... Everybody felt disappointed......... but we don't have any choice at all.......
We spend time around the market place..........
Blind lady selling some kind of seaweed............ Fish market...........
We even found this in town...... Try saying this in Hokkien........Ha Ha Ha!!!