Scubareefing
Pangkor Island lies just off the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It’s known for beaches like Teluk Nipah, Coral Bay and Pasir Giam, which connects to coral-ringed Giam Island at low tide. Dating back to 1670, the ruined Dutch Fort demonstrates the island’s strategic colonial importance. Nearby, the Sacred Rock is inscribed with the Dutch East India Company symbol and a picture of a tiger carrying away a child. Pangkor is different from Pangkor Laut, as Pangkor Laut is another smaller island close to Pangkor island...
Stayed one night at the Famous Super High End Expensive Resort at Pangkor Laut island. Pangkor Laut island is the smaller island, Pangkor island is the bigger island there at Perak of Malaysia, one can take a ferry from Lumut island, Perak to Pangkor island...
At Pangkor Islands, Malaysia ~ One can also spot plenty of Anchovies, Snapperfishes, brown crabs, blue spotted stingray, banner fishes, the rare nudibranches, scorpion fish, turtles, barracudas and even pigmies seahorses. We also found a leopard shark trapped in a lost fishing net that was lying on the ocean floor. We are not allowed to cut fish free from fishing nets which are in use but this net was lost. We freed a leopard shark. This time, we happened to get to know some of scuba divers doing the dives with us there at Pangkor islands.
David from Leeds England has done quite a bit of diving in the North Sea. He joined in diving at Pangkor for shooting some video. He found it good diving in Pangkor.
Meg and Ken from Japan, where they came and did scuba diving at Pangkor too. They have been diving in the Caribbean, California and Mexico among other places joined a few days and enjoyed it too.
Frederick, a rescue diver from Denmark, who has experience with wreck diving in Denmark had a good few days. He has plans to come back later this year to explore more of the islands and its underwater life.
Snorkeling :
The closest thing you can get nowadays is get a boat to one of the small atols. You can get a boat at Teluk Nipah to Pulau Giam where you can do some nice snorkeling, price depends on the amount of people and your capability to negotiate the prices. Open water and advance level divers can go to Pulau Pangkor/Sembilan island for some recreational dives. The average visibility is about 7 meters but on good days you get a lot more.
Kevin and I often frequent plenty of dive sites across Malaysia, for short weekends PH breaks, and further distance countries if we have more time to spare. Been Scuba diving at Sabah - Pulau Paya Marine Park, Langkawi, Miri - Wrecks and oil tube pipe dives, Perhentians Island - wreck dives, Tioman - recreational dives, Rawa And Susu Dawa Islands, Redang islands etc...
We have observed that the waters and visibility at Pangkor island, is not as translucent as compared to diving at Perhentians island, Malaysia, sadly Pangkor island used to claim the "Maldives" island status of Malaysia... Guess the waters nowadays across Straits of Singapore and Malaysia are getting murky, more polluted to the more construction activities along the sea coastal area hence which is why even in Malaysia, waters across all islands are also affected. Hopefully, there can be more scuba divers coming forward, to work, preserve the underwater beauty of the marine life and corals reefs of these islands in Malaysia.
One doesn't need to travel far to reach to white/golden sandy pristine beaches and awesome marine life. It's been great weather to go out to sea to scuba dive and snorkel for past few days at Pangkor Islands, another nice golden sandy beach here of Malaysia.
Do you know that the cabs here are all painted in hot pink? Nice delicious Buffet for breakfast at another resort the next morning and even the monkeys here also stole a piece of pancake to eat for breakfast! :)
While the crowds sets into this island, time for us to leave... Leaving behind beautiful memories, taking photos but no touching of coral reefs and marine life... Note that there are no Scuba Diving and Snorkeling activities conducted during Hari Raya Festive Season. Had to charter our own private boat to go out to sea.. So don't travel to Malaysia islands during Malaysians holidays if you do not have their local boatmen contacts to bring you out to sea and scuba dive...
Come join us for future travel land tours or Scuba diving trips across South East Asia ! :)
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