Malaysia Pictures...

Here are some pictures from Malaysia. This is Part 1 as we have more coming as well. So think of this as an appetizer just wetting your appetite for more epic adventures from KB and Caleb. I know that was cheesy.




We went snorkling and saw sharks and turtles. This was our crew and friends from the trip. The other couple was from Italy and then there was two friends who were teaching English in Asia from Washington and Russia. We have found many friends and travelers from Europe, but rather a small number from the states.

We actually got to swim with two HUGE green turtles. They are amazing and such curious creatures. So much better in real life. If I were an animal, I would love to be a gaint sea turtle.

Caleb swimming near the gaint green turtle. Incredible experience to see and watch them. I felt like I was on Discovery Channel and loved it. Twice we got to see the turtle ascend for air and we only a few feet away. They are so big as well being a good 3-4 feet in length and several hundred pounds in weight. These were small ones even.

KB swimming with schools for fish. There were times when we would be in the middle of thousands of incrediblely colored tropical fish. Most of the time, KB was laughing the entire time the fish were around her. There were some that would take painless bites on your legs and were so curious with us.

Our hotel on the Perhensian Isands had a pet monkey. Katybeth quickly became one of her BFF. This little girl was only a few months old and was taken away from her family on the other island as the family supposedly had kicked her out. Very sad and she leashed most of the time without freedom. She had plenty of friends though.

This is sunset on Coral Beach of the Perhensian Islands. We ended up staying more than a week here as we fell in love with the people and place. We would swim, read, swim, play cards, snorkle, eat lunch, swim,....you get the idea. It was a great place to rest and relax. We would have taken many more beatuiful pictures, but our camera broke the third day we were on the Island. Big Bummer...

This was the first room we had when we got to the Island. We paid $5 for the room and at that it was not worth it. I think we got 384 mosqitoe and ant bites despite having a mosqitoe net. Also, there was party on this side of the island (Long Beach) with music which didn't quiet until about 4am. It didn't help that is was also built on ant mountain as well. We are getting old and needed our rest so we decided after about 3 hours of sleep to head to the other side (Coral Beach).

On our taxi boat heading to the Perhensian Isands. It took about 45 mintues of continuous bouncing and being thrown around. Good thing we have strong stomachs and don't get motion sickness. It was great fun and clearest water, we've even seen.