Mar 04 2007
We’ve arranged for a shark dive with exotic, starting at 5am! We wake long before dawn, and Mabel’s cousin picks us up on his motorcycle. The dive’s an hour offshore, and we’re told dawn is the best time for shark spotting. The ocean floor is pretty barren, and the dive is almost uneventful, spotting just […]
Mar 03 2007
We “waste” a day lazily lounging around the card table, and the family decides to make us a fresh chicken dinner. The men jump to life, and gather near the BBQ with a few live chickens. After positioning a bowl to catch the blood, one of them pulls back each chicken’s head while another slits […]
Mar 02 2007
One of Mabel’s relatives is a dive master with Exotic on the far side of the island, and Seb and I are eager for a bit more scuba! We have an excellent 2 dive excursion out to Gato Island (Sipadan hasn’t completely ruined the sport it turns out!), and spend the afternoon drinking and eating […]
Mar 01 2007
I’m amazingly not hung over, but I wake up to find a nice pool of vomitous on the floor and the wall, and apparently out the glass-slat window and down the outside of the house (oops!) There’s some ugly business going down outside my window – it appears that our neighbor has brought in the […]