IMPORTANT: This entry is the sequel of I’m Back From Redang (P.1). If you haven’t read it, please do so before reading this entry by clicking here.

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2nd day: 6.15am – Some eager guys and girls woke up early in the morning to watch the oceanic sunrise! Indeed, I imagine it would be extremely beautiful, but I spared myself from waking up sooo early in the morning – 6am leh! Sigh… Long day ahead… Zzzzzz…

In fact, I even skipped breakfast, which was at 7.30am… So I had a whole can of Pringles for breakfast! Haha!

For the next activity, we went for (again) snorkelling, at Redang Marine Park. It is a closed-conservation area of magnificent corals and fishes off the beach of a nearby island.

We were given (presumably exipred) bread to be fed to the fish while snorkelling! It was really an exciting experience to have schools of cute fishes swimming around and nibbling on the bread from your fingers! Some of fish even thought my hand was part of the food and nibbled on it, too!

Later, my friends and I got bored of feeding fish so we started catching fish with the plastic bags originally used to contain bread. I know we’re not allowed to do that but we just couldn’t resist, we even caught a few small jellyfish! Of course, we freed all our ‘captives’ later, unharmed!

The water near the edge of the buoy-closed boundary was quite deep, and sometimes I couldn’t help but think – what if a lost, hungry shark wandered into the area, and saw all the small wiggling feet with yummy flesh in life jackets on the surface of the water…? Aiks!

We went back to the resort at around 12.30pm and had lunch. Jon told me that he and Alex wouldn’t be going for the next snorkelling activity, and we had to take care of ourselves. No Tour Leader!! Die lor!

We also planned for a surprise early birthday celebration at night for our Programmes Director, Pegan, whose birthday was in 4 days time!

At 2.30pm (time with super duper red-hot scorching sunshine), we went for the 3rd and final group snorkelling activity at an area near another island.

There were much less fish here, but the corals were fantastic! Pretty much the nicest ones among the 3 snorkelling sites!

During tea break and free time in the late afternoon of the 2nd day, everyone was enjoying the last period of time at the beach before having to leave the island the next morning.

I went snorkelling at the so-called ‘baby shark’ area, Jon went parasailing, David, Steven and Glen went for a long distance swim around a small island, some others went for visits to the infamous More More Tea Inn Souvenir Shop at Laguna Resort, and most of the rest were simply strolling along the beach enjoying the calm sea breeze and taking photos.

We were served BBQ for dinner, yes, served. We couldn’t grill the food ourselves like in normal BBQs, thus missing out the fun, but also – thankfully - the heat. We’ve had enough ’sun-heat’ for the past 2 days so I guess everyone’s fine with it!

After dinner, me and my friends went for a visit at Redang Reef Resort, Err… I mean Resot.

My friends also grabbed some souvenirs and me a present for our burfday gal from the More More Tea Inn Souvenir Shop!

At around 9pm we celebrated Pegan’s birthday with a huge *splat* of her face on the birthday cake! Somebody even bought some gin and vodka! Aww… Ain’t it nice to have 80 people celebrating your birthday at the beach?

After everything’s finished, around 10pm, Jon and I retreated to set up the traditional Tourism Club trip committee’s casino, err… no, pay-for-entertainment session in his room. Glen and Steven graciously sponsored the essentials for a hyped up nite!

Unfortunately, two major groups of the committee who played with us during the previous Taman Negara trip didn’t participate in this trip. So our game was greatly reduced in size, with only around 9 participants. =(

At around 1am, the rest of Jon’s roommates were back. We were using their beds as tables so we had to leave. Jon and the rest went to sleep but Alex and a few of us went to the canteen to continue!

At 5am, we ended the game and went back to our rooms for a hot shower and a 2-hour super-brief sleep till the morning.

We checked-out from our rooms at 9.30am the next morning, bought a last few souvenirs and took some final photos. After taking the charming group photo of all the participants cramped together, we boarded the ship that brought us to the ferry back to the mainland.

A rather interesting event happened though – the first ship was stuck in the sand when it docked at the shallow water of the sea! The captain spent 20 minutes of fruitless effort to steer the ship out of the sand before requesting half of the passengers to alight the ship and help push it away from the shallow water!

Thanks to the efforts of everyone, the ship was finally pushed out of its stuck position and sadly we bid in our hearts – bye bye Pulau Redang!

After leaving the island, we had lunch in Chinatown in Kuala Terengganu and headed on another, sigh, 9-hour journey back to Cyberjaya!

All in all, the trip was a success, and we have the Trip Director – Agnes, and all the committee members to thank! The sun-tan might last for only a few weeks, but the memories will last for a long long time!

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Check out the complete collection of photos taken during the Redang Trip in my photo album!

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