2017-10-01 (Sunday) - The Kebun

Storms! All night, and all day! It was pretty spectacular, and torrential! Paish and Daddy woke at 7.30 and watched the storms and challenged each other. Mummy and Rox slept until around 9.30! What the!

Packed up, and went for our breakfast - home made jams and buns! Yummy!

We then waterproofed our bags, and headed down to the boat at high tide after taking pictures of Callie, Lola and Sophie - sad to say goodbye, they were lovely! Lola and Callie were sooooo cute!

We headed off on the ocean in torrential rain, but it was warmer than it should have been, but we were still soaked. Matt dropped us off in the market where we met Adrian - a Malay born in Brisbane living in Sarawak trading in goats and has a home stay - wow! And he knows how to make layer cake (kek lapis)! We went to a local restaurant where we ate rice, noodles, fish curry and jungle greens - lovely! We then headed back to his farm which was the most scenic and relaxing homestay ever! We were staying in a long house above rivers that had crocodiles in! Adrian was a pretty impressive guy, and we've already heard a lot of his stories!

We met Janine who helped us with our bags, showed us around, and our washing. She also showed us our car, so we headed out pretty much straight away to the Matang Wildlife Centre which was very quaint, and saw the rehabilitation of orang-utans, monkeys, hornbills, deer and crocodiles. We only just got in at the end of the day, so there was no one there. It was pretty spooky, but amazing.

Came back after, and mooched around until dinner got delivered!

2017-09-30 (Saturday) - The Sea Kayak Race

Wow, what a day! After an early breakfast, well, around 10ish, we decided to take seem fruit and go for our kayak to the furthest beach. Man it was hard! We started off with CB in the single, and Aiysha and Clara with the paddles, but when we got to the first beach we swapped. We had a bit of fruit at the first beach, which was nice. Our challenge was the second beach though. Wow, it was a tough row, and we were all exhausted getting there. It took around 1.5 hours against the current, but well worth it. It was so nice, and absolutely deserted! We found some amazing shells, had our fruit lunch, then played skimmer ball. It was wonderful. We headed home around 2.38 with the current, and got home at 3.28, which was amazing. Aiysha and Daddy felt a bit sea sick, but it was so much fun.

Hermit crab race anyone? Mummy was particularly fond of her big hermit crab!

We washed, and settled down for some tea and cake - chocolate fondant and tarts! Lovely! We mooched around for a while, went to the beach to see the sunset and lightening, then up to dinner for banana curry and caramelised soy beans - lovely! The girls didn’t like it much, so they had some fruit.

Mario, then bed. Aiysha kept winning.

2017-09-29 (Friday) - The Jungle Trek

What a sleep! 9.30-6.30, then until 9.30 again - 12 hours! Amazing! We can all feel recovering from being battered by civilisation!

Breakfast then our local beach in the morning - just a bit relaxing before we hit the jungle after lunch. We built a dam, did some exercises, and lazed around for an hour or so.

Had our baked aubergine + garlic cream cheese toast, then we had our tart and chocolate cake - so nice!

Matt then showed us the entrance to the jungle path, then we were on our own. I was elected the sacrificial leader, and we set off! It was so dense, some parts really steep, and the floor was covered in leaves so we didn’t really know what we were stepping on. At one point Callie went to chase some animals, and they sounded like wild boar! It was very creepy knowing no one was going to be coming along at any point. We crossed 3 small streams, and then hit the big stream which we gullied. At one point part of the river turned black whilst the other was clear - very strange. The gullying was so fun, and we eventually reached our abandoned beach. We got to spend a couple of hours here, which was amazing. We swam, threw the ball around, climbed rocks, explored, collected rubbish and put them into a basket, and then finally had hermit crab races - so funny! Daddy won with his, but just when Mummy thought she had a winner, it attacked her! It had a massive claw and would not let go. Daddy got here to hold it under the water, and it eventually walked away. Funny!

Hiked back over the rocks on the way back - took 30 minutes this time!

Showered, and played some Mario before dinner - Once Paish joined in, no one had a hope!

Dinner was samosa, cous cous and dips - yummy! Girls only liked the samosa, and left me with the salad - bonus! On the way out, Roxy spotted a snake! Matt ushered it away, but it ended up being a Malaysian Poisonous Crate Viper - deadly! Went down to the beach, and watched the lightening on the other islands, and we saw a single firefly fly past! Amazing!

Finally slept at 10.30, after Daddy got smashed at Mario.