Pangkor Island, Lumut

Herping

It was one great bright Saturday morning where it will be my second herping adventure. This is not any ordinary trip, very different from those trips organize by a society or in school. Although we are out camping, we get to choose what we want or when we what, there is no time limit for anything you do and that is the best part.

We traveled through the country side of Perak, following those trunk roads, leading from Teluk Intan to Setiwan --than--> Lumut

Few wrong turns took me 30 minutes extra to reached our location.

As we go along. there are many long winded road, no ending roads and *weird* roads, like the one on top, banana tress on both side welcoming us.

Finally we arrived, I was exhausted until I saw the ocean, so beautiful . . There are many islands around, which one is Pangkor?

It's been awhile since my last ferry ride, felt kinda cool getting into all this again, in fact I haven't went for any trip for sometime already.

Mr Jeckshen and Austin on board, I can say, sight seeing. Haha

Checking out the surrounding, many isolated islands and ships around, cant keep our eyes away from the sea, city boy ma . . Lol
The flow of wind flew by was great as we enjoy the view of the sea. There is a marine port around there too.

We reached Pangkor Jetty in 30 minutes.

A warmth fishing village along the shore, looks inviting.

First animal encountered, Hornbills on a coconut tree. Amazing . .

We headed for our dinner before getting to our camp site. This particular Malay shop had weird decorative items. Discovered many harden puffer hanging nearby the toilet.

Dead bats as wind chain ?? Wonder does it smells . .

We rented a scooter for 30 bucks with half tank of petrol left. 90% of the residents in Pangkor travel by motorcycle, you can hardly see cars on road.

As we moved along, we arrive to some village where the jungle track is. We parked our bikes nearby and started hiking to our campsite where it is located south on the island.

Our campsite finally. It was already spooky dark when we arrived, worrying about rain as there are thunder and lighting, it turns out to be a beautiful night after all.

I was unloading my stuff and eating buns. suddenly there is a black cat stirring my bag. Thought what will happen right, I scooped the cat up and Jeckshen was like Omg, whats tat, Whats Tat!

It turns out to be a fetus dropping, oh gosh...!! it's disgusting, the black cat just walk away as if it just shit. Arrgh . . .

After getting ready with our gears and stuff, we started herping along the shore, bush, everywhere . .

It was real dark walking around, leeches and mosquitoes are one of the most annoying creatures found in the jungle.

Encounter this huge jungle millipede, a fully grown one. Scare me, really, cant handle as it feels gross with those thousand legs on your hand.. haha.. Jeckshen was the man that countered the fear of a thousand legs creature. =)

Many hermit crabs was found along the shore during the night as they are finding for food.

We headed further to herb, along the rocks of the shore.

Fossils like creature on some rock, we called it Kutu Batu . . haha

It sticks really hard on the rock until Jeckshen started burning them only we managed to picked them up..

Well, looks familiar guys?? hehe, puss puss

A random picture, sea cucumber and a tiny crab by the beach.

There are plenty of this animals running around the beach roaming freely and you can only found them at night.

After herping for 2-3 hours, we headed back to our camp as there are nothing interesting, animals that we found are common and can be found in most jungles easily. We are not interested in any sea creatures but SNAKES. Yes, only Snakes!

We started a fire and cooked our meal, it took me 2 hours to cook 6 packets of maggi.

Without any hesitation, we started herping once more after our meal, hoping for the best of the trip.
Around 1 or 2am, Austin finally spotted a green slliding creature on top of a tree.

It was a snake, by looking at that fat triangle head, we knew that was a viper. Infact, Pangkor jungles are mostly filled with viper.

Since it was danggling on a branch high up, the only way is to climb that tree with those hook and try to hook it down, I sweared it was a tall tree and I was afraid it might striked me when I hooked it.

Check this beauty out, Wagler's Pit Viper, it's venomous, healthy, fat and awesome !! This my first encountered and even caught a poisonous snake. Lol, most satisfying part in this whole adventure.

Annoying monkeys and tigering wave sound woke us up, after some cleaning up, we headed to the sea to swim =)

AhKang with one of the crab we caught during the night, we have 2 actually, matured ones. .

Pangkor offers clean beach as well. Not to say it is crstal clear but semi clear.

Many boulders around where it tempted me to climb. Too bad it wasn't the right time.

Very nice beach around the camp site, peaceful, warmth . .

This was one of the most satisfying trip ever, got to plan everything ourself, going through those creepy stuff and most of all spending time together. Credits to Austin, Jeckshen and AhKang for contributing to this trip, it was a great one !