I recommend it for diving - http://www.redangkalong.com/webtoolz2/article-10.html
I do not recommend it for "resort" activities, but anyway...
The dive operation is great, the food is good (not as good as Seaventures, and a little more targeted to their mainly Malaysian Chinese customers), and the dive sites not too bad at all.
So a few pictorial tidbits before the underwater upload.
First up: Keeping with my macro fascination - a grasshopper that was on the wall outside our room. The underwater business has improved my not-so-mad skillz immensely, and I think my results with normal flash photography are improving.
Secondly: The tide goes RIGHT out at Redang Kalong, so much so that the boats end up sitting on the bottom.
Lastly: A fish, but not the kind you might expect.
So we met a chap named Raj at Redang Kalong, who works on merchant ships. I found it fascinating, as I've always been interested in big boats for some reason.
Did you know that for a big container ship (that holds around 5000 containers - there are bigger, I think the biggest holds over 14,000) it costs over USD1.5 million to fuel it? The same ship at maximum cruising speed burns over 160 cubic meters of fuel per day....
This is a picture of the biggest one in the world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Emma_Maersk_2.jpg
Anyway.
Raj gave us a lift back to KL, and drove us around the city and stuff, and then dropped us off to where we were getting the bus from. What a great bloke... I hope some day we'll be able to repay the hospitality.
We got a fairly luxurious bus from KL to SIN, but for some reason even though it was 11:30 at night, they insisted on putting a movie on (complete with audio, whether you liked it or not).
No one should be subjected to Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, especially when trying to sleep.
Five slightly sleepless hours later we arrived in Singapore, and made our way back to Chateau Curran, and here we are....
Latest, and probably last for a long time, batch of underwater photos.
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/rogue303/PulauRedang
The housing has to go back to Ikelite for repairs, due to crappy manufacturing. Grr.
Later!
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