Siamil Island

We went for a day trip to a nearby island, Siamil island, where we did our three dives.  The first two were deeper, with the goal of trying to find devil rays (no luck) on #1, but we did a big frogfish, some cuttlefish, and it was nice to hang out in the blue - a weird feeling for a while.

After our second dive (Meditation Wall), we hung out on the beautiful beach.  The island is only home to a Malaysian Army base, where the army is working to provide protection to tourists (and locals) as a result of recent incursions by rebels coming from the Philippines. 


During lunch on the beach, a highlight was one of the divemasters, Kai, who had the nickname of Mowgli from the Jungle Book, scaling a coconut tree. We had as much pure coconut juice as we could handle.  Amazing!