Showing posts with label Awana Kijal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Awana Kijal. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Tekam to Awana Kijal, December 17

I woke up early to go for a walk to the weather station, passed some cocoa trees.  En Ismail was doing reading of the different apparatus, measuring rainfall and such.  We chatted for a while and I asked about the various apparatus and how they worked.  Then I walked back to our chalet to see if everyone was awake.  I plucked a ripe cocoa fruit to show the boys.

Everyone was awake and we all headed for breakfast.  There was less people at breakfast.  Jordan surfed the net for a while and then we headed back to our chalet to pack up.  We checked out at 11am and headed for Maran.  The road to Maran was very windy but there was hardly any traffic.  We passed by a very beautiful Hindu temple at Kampung Kuala Sentul en route to Maran.  (re http://mysticaltemplesofmalaysia.blogspot.com/2008/08/sri-marathandavar-bala-dhandayuthapani_20.html)  Unfortunately we did not stop and I did not manage to take photos of the beige coloured temple.  I will make it back to that temple one day.

We got on to the East Coast Expressway at Maran at noon and took 1.5 hours to get to Kemaman for lunch at the Floating Cafe.  It rained while we were eating.  Then we rushed to Awana Kijal to check in after dropping our laundry at the laundrette and picking up KFC lunch for Jordan whose chicken chop was not done at Kemaman.

After resting for a while (me and Derrick), the boys tuned in to Disney Channel and played Plants vs Zombies on the netbook.  Then it was swimming and beach time.  I left Jordan and Johan at the pool and walked the beach with Joey while Derrick stayed in the room to rest.  The sea was really rough and the wind literally howled.  The winds did not slow down, instead accelerated into the night.  There was a blackout after dinner from 8.30 to 9.30pm.  I was dead tired so I slept first.  The rain fell through the night and the wind rattled the window panes.