Exactly a week ago, i was sitting in that very chair staring into the sea which surrounds Redang Island and i tell you, it’s one of the few islands that you won’t regret visiting. Pangkor didn’t make that big an impact to me but Redang definitely did. Oh btw, thanks for this picture William

The journey to Kuala Terengganu itself was an experience to me

There were 2 groups that went to Redang and from the KL side, there’s William, Daniel, Aaron, David, Lisa and of course me. Penang side consisted of Dolphin, Lee May, Lasker, Elise, Hugo and Wendy.

William and i met with Aaron at KL Sentral before heading to PWTC via KTM Komuter. Then we had our dinner before the remaining three arrived. The bus stop was walking distance from PWTC. The bus departed at 10.30pm and i was told it will take easily 7-8hours to reach Kuala Terengganu.

Half way thru the journey we had a stop for half an hour before moving on. Pictures are all taken with my handy Nokia 5610 music express I was just too lazy to whip out my DSLR, after all it’s only a short stop.

I never got much sleep throughout the journey and i ended up entertaining myself with a couple of movies and games from my ipod. Then out of the blue, William woke up and saw me playing this particular game called the Tap Tap Revenge …

… and he decided to give it a go. The game is similar to O2Jam, whereby you tap on the colour beats as they scroll down according to your music from the itunes library. After a few rounds, William dozed off and i was back again with my movie watching session and this time it was Jumper.

The view outside of the bus was barely limited to a couple of hundreds of meters as it was foggy. This was described in detail by Dolphin when she sms-ed saying the surroundings looked mysterious … like in the forest of Lord of the Rings. ROFL. OK the last part i made it up but it was definitely mysterious looking.

The best bit of the long winding journey was when the bus drove thru a town called Kemaman which i believed to be the place where Petronas refines or probably stock up petroleum and gas after retrieving it from the shores of Terengganu. The whole place was filled with fire blowing chimneys and i tell you, the sight of it was simply breath-taking. By the time i finally decided to take out my DSLR, the bus was already far from that place and i really regretted for not snapping at least one shot.

When we finally reached the bus station at Kuala Terengganu, we all had more than an hour to spare before the shuttle van ferries us to the jetty point. So after meeting up with the rest from Penang, we headed to a nearby 7-11 to get some light breakfast. While standing outside of 7-11 eating our maggi in cup, we all talked and got to know each other, especially to those who were meeting for the very first time. It was more like a short ice breaking session which turned out well, lol.

At about 7.30am, two vans appeared in front of the bus station and we were off to the jetty. The journey took about thirty minutes and that’s the only time where i actually dozed off -_-” Then upon reaching the jetty point, we all got into a boat and about 9am we were already on our way to Redang. The boat wasn’t particularly fast, probably because of the heavy load it had.

Everyone was excited. We just kept looking out of the window though there was nothing to see except sky and sea, even i couldn’t help but to look out. Then there’s some who were already telling what they intend to do once they got on the island, some decided to stay silence and enjoy the breeze which was blowing thru the side openings of the boat. You can just feel that everyone in that boat was excited and they can’t wait to let loose once they get onto that island

Daniel said recently that he hardly sees any shots with him in it. So here you go

The boat ride took about half an hour as well and we got off to a resort called the Redang Kalong, in short RK This resort is probably one of the best resorts for divers and also to those who would want old style kinda accomodation. More on that in future upcoming entries.

Until then, i shall recuperate as i am down with terrible headache, fever and flu. How convenient is that …? -_-”