Sipadan

Here is a pic of sipadan island

Alright, so we made it to Semporna. Took a 10 hour bus journey through the jungle last night and arrive here fairly ahead of schedule. The bus driver was a mad man and was pretending to be a race car driver passing other busses up and down the mountain in the rain. I swear that I woke up and we were driving in the mud up a hill and was convinced that we were going to get stuck. We arrived in a neighboring town at 4:30am and got a taxi to Semporna which was an hour and a half ride. Again, we chose well concerning the driver and although the speedometer was broken I am convinced at some points we were breaking the sound barrier. Creeping up on this small water village we could see the sun rising with tall palm trees and mountians with beautiful reds and oranges seeping out behind. Found a place to stay that is a series of buildings built on stilts above the water. There is not much to do in this town as we have found out quickly and seems diving is the main attraction. We walked around today checking out dive shops and took a walk through the market where I saw piles of my fav. porcupine puffer fish for sale, bought some fruit and got stared at by pretty much everyone. Seem to be some of the very few non-locals here and had every little boy and girl in our faces staring us down, smiling, pointing and even yelling from across the street to wave and say hi.

Think we found a shop we want to dive with so will probably be diving tomorrow and neither one of us can wait. Thinking we will do 3 days of 3 dives while we are here... or until we ar satisfied I guess but keep your fingers crossed for us... supposed to be amazing. Including loads of turtles, possibly 20 on one dive, lots of sharks...hopefully hammerheads, manta rays and loads more.