Air Batang (or ABC as its known for short). This is a view south, from the headland path which leads towards the next cove, Penumbra Bay. You can clearly see some of the coral reef in the clear blue water!
The beach by Telek (the main village settlement on Pulau Tioman) looking up towards Air Batang to the North. This whole island has a very pretty coast-line.
The 7th hole! We're standing on the tee, taking the photo. You can see the green in the distance, just the other side of the massive beach-bunker. Gary cleared the sea well, but couldn't quite make it past the beach. It was funny to see him traipsing through the sand to retrieve his ball! You can also see a nice wet weather front closing in from the sea - we sheltered in the nice golf buggy (silly things).
Monkeys! There were plenty on the golf course (along with lizards), although not on the fairway of the 7th hole oddly enough. This mummy-babby pair were elsewhere though - they were part of a group that actually walked right over our heads on power cables in Air Batang before jumping into the surrounding trees. Below are some more island residents! These monitor lizards were babys compared with the 2m monsters we came accross - they're only 1-1.5m long. But they posed for photos much much more readily, letting me get within a meter, whereas the big ones just ran away :( Which is probably why the big ones are so big - caution...
Monkeys! There were plenty on the golf course (along with lizards), although not on the fairway of the 7th hole oddly enough. This mummy-babby pair were elsewhere though - they were part of a group that actually walked right over our heads on power cables in Air Batang before jumping into the surrounding trees. Below are some more island residents! These monitor lizards were babys compared with the 2m monsters we came accross - they're only 1-1.5m long. But they posed for photos much much more readily, letting me get within a meter, whereas the big ones just ran away :( Which is probably why the big ones are so big - caution...
A visitor to the ferry jetty just as we were leaving the island! For some reason the pier is a popular place for turtles to surface to take a breath of air, before descending into the depths again and swimming away. We saw four in only half an hour! I was lucky and caught this one just as he took his gulp - you can see his head out of the water if you look closely.
And to finish off this selection of photos, how about a spectacular sunset? This section of Air Batang bay was just by our hotel, and offered dramatic evening views from the terrace of a very nice pizza place called Sunset Corner. A few hours later and the clouds on the horizon became an impressive (but distant) thunderstorm.
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