Ah the Pehrentians! After being blissfully cool and mellow in the Cameron Highlands we head up to the east coast for some sun, sea and sand. We met a really nice couple from England, George and Vicki, and because of how late we got onto the Little Island (the other of the island pair is surprisingly called the Big Island) we had to book into a "dorm", which also housed the hotel restaurant's toilets, a load of bed-bugs and quite a few mice. I, of course slept like a log (bar having something small and mouse shaped crawling on my foot at one point) but E was a bit frazzled from a sleepless night, so the next day we moved into a suite in the best hotel on the island!

The islands are really good for snorkelling and diving, so myself and George went on a snorkelling trip around the two islands. I got to swim with a 2m Blacktip reef shark, some amazingly beautiful fish and coral, but the best was when a huge turtle swam about a foot away from me. He'd been eating stuff on the sea floor, then as he came up for air he was right beside me and we swam together for about 100m until he'd had enough and went off into the blue. I'll never forget it and I'm actually kinda glad I didn't have have a camera with me, it's something only I get to remember, and you all have to be jealous!

The rest of the time we spent on the beach playing football or Frisbee, there really wasn;t much else to do. So I am now a deep mahogany colour, which is quite nice.

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