One thing for sure, all of us were very excited about diving at Pulau Aur. While most of us caught some sleeps before our first dive @ 9am, a couple of us sat @ the veranda, chit chatting & munching on the rambutans & mangosteens that were bought from mainland… hmm.. yum yum….

Breakfast was served @ 8.30am.  The portion was more for 20 pax than only for 8 of us!  I thought more people would join in but only to find out that we had the whole island to ourselves on Friday!!!  The Singaporean groups will only arrive on Saturday.  Wow, that’s the 1st time ever I felt so exclusive on an island.

Breakfast was really awesome

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“Pulau Aur?  Where’s that?”  That’s the response I got from 8 out of 10 friends who asked me where I went for diving last weekend.  Well, I’m not surprise at all as Pulau Aur is not very well known among non-divers.  In fact, I myself came to know about the island just last year.  Kinda ashamed actually.  Aur is different from the other islands in Peninsular Malaysia that I’ve been.  The hill is made up of rocks & big boulders.

The Diver’s Lodge at Pulau Aur

The chalets of the resort, Diver’s Lodge we stayed at were actually built multi-levelled on rocks.  Luckily ours is at the bottom.  My friends & I started our journey from KL @ 5.30pm.  After our dinner stop @ Ayer Keroh Jejantas, we had a surprised gift – a flat tyre!  We’re travelling @ about 120km/hr and luckily we managed to bring the car to the side of the road safely.  It was caused by a nail.  Trips to Aur for Reef Check survey were always filled with adventures.  I knew the last group who went there a month ago had to wait @ a floating dive centre (basically a pontoon where tanks are kept) for more than 2 hours because the tide was too low for them to cross to the resort.  Phew… anyways we managed to change the tyre & continue our journey.

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