Tropical Fun

I guess any participants who has their own blog,
surely will write something about this tropical fun that I've participated in just yesterday
(most people mostly have updated their blog last night...)
So what was the big deal about this whole tropical fun thing?
What about it anyway?
Well,it was a long story...
Simply put.this tropical fun was 'supposed' to be a trip to the beautiful pantai kerachut...
The main attractions were the beach itself & the trekking process...
Since I've never went there before,so why not?
Oh,by the way,it was organized by rakan muda,
which some of the members are also my librarians,
thus I got to know about this whole thing..
& some more they told me there'll be a lot of pretty girls going too,
so again,why not?;p
(for any female friends who'll be viewing this post,please forgive me...
at least I dare to admit it was one of my reasons to be there;p)
though at the end,I still didn't really do anything,besides admiring...
ok,back to the main point...
I woke up quite early yesterday,at 5.15am...
since my basketball tournament last month,
i've never wake up so damn early already,
some more with only 3 hour & 45 minutes of sleeping hour...
ya,I slept at 12.30am the previous day,
another breakthrough for myself after all these while;p
then I proceeded with showering & had my breakfast,
then I gave morning to my friend who'll be fetching me to the rendezvous point...
Upon arriving the rendezvous location,which is at Belia there,
we met with our librarians friends as well.
At around 8 something,we only started moving,
heading towards our next destination,penang's Taman Negara
(I never knew there was such a place existed until that day) via bus...
Well,it's located slightly above of the end of teluk Bahang,
where I've always turned left & went to Balik Pulau every time I went through there....
The Taman Negara is quite a huge forest,with small hills all around inside ,
which offer great trekking & hiking experiences through the woods,
but people go there mostly is for the beautiful beaches,the Monkey beach,
Muka Head ,Pantai kerachut & various sites as well.....
There are many activities that can be carried out at these sites,
such as camping,fishing,swimming,& I also heard that you can see sea turtle lay eggs there,
but I only heard of it,as we never get the chance to witness it that day,because....
(well,I don't wanna spoil you,so you'll just have to scroll down & read the rest of the story to know why)
Hmm...perhaps next time I shall go there with my friends;p
By the way,our final destination was the Pantai Kerachut...

We arrived there at around 9 am....
Then we gathered at the entrance 1st...while I was checking on my slippers;p



The office of the Taman Negara & the sea view at the entrance there
There are boat services that'll send you directly to those destinations I've mentioned early,
but of course,with a high price;p


Then at at around 9.30am,we starting our journey to Pantai Kerachut...


Still on the way.....



We've came to a rest point...after resting for few minutes,we proceed....

Finally,we've arrived;p

Unfortunately,there weren't any more photos taken for the rest of the journey,
you wanna know why?
I'll tell you why,because it's started to rain as soon as we arrived there!!
The rest of our journey can only be described using one word:TERRIBLE
Basically,all those activities that were in the plan couldn't be carried out at all,
but that didn't mean we did nothing in there,despite the weather is very bad...
Well,most of the people just went to the shore & got themselve wet...
I suppose that was only natural reactions of most people when they saw ocean is right in front of their eyes...
So me & my friends also went near to the shore & let ourselve get hitted by the waves....
Actually in such a bad weather,one shouldn't really get near to the shore as the wave was very very strong,one might get washed away into the ocean if not careful enough...
but luckily nothing bad happened,well,except for someone who get his spectacles washed away....
pity that guy,though I didn't know him at all & it was none of my business anyway...;p
After we felt that we've get ourselve soaked wet enough,we went back to the shelter...
Of course at that time,the rain was still pouring heavily from the sky...
which made us feel more cold than ever....
Only then I've found out that I actually forgot to bring a towel for myself...
though i did bring a spare clothe & pants & of course underwear...but no towel...
so I just let it be...
But the story hasn't reached its climax yet...
We were told that our lunch wouldn't be able to delivered to us cause of the bad weather...
The original plan was they'll send us the food by boat from the other side(the entrance)
but they couldn't & we were starving & tired at the time....
Then around 1pm,since the sky's still raining,
they finally decided that keep on waiting won't solve anything,
so they asked us to walk back to where we came from...
I was like : 'What the %@#$? ,it's raining now,& even if it doesn't,the floor is still wet & it's kinda dangerous walk back there in such conditions as the roads were pretty narrow & very slippery as well..."
But do we have other choices?
So we traveled all the way back to where we came from,only this time,
under EXTREME condition....
I wish there was any photos taken during such extreme occasion,
but who'd have the mood to take photos anyway that time?
I believe most of us were thinking about the same thing,"when will all this over?"
Slippery slopes,muddy roads,nasty......
Luckily I've changed my sport shoe to slippers upon reaching the beach earlier on...
for those who forgot to bring extra slippers,
I could imagine how'd they felt when they get their foot soaked by those muddy roads...
After almost two hours of journey through the 'nasty woods',
we've finally came back to somewhere we were familiar with.....
Most of us had a bath at the washroom at the entrance & changed our clothe so that we won't caught any cold...then we had our lunch..at last....
Then around 4 something,we headed back to Belia via bus again....
It was a 'fun' tropical trip,no,seriously,it was fun cause at least i got the chance to experience something that normally I wouldn't wanna try ,which is trekking under raining...
I never thought of blaming the organiser for this,
just that the weather wasn't on our side,that's all...
Hope that by next time I visit back,it'd be a fair day throughout the whole journey;p
Camping,anyone?