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From Kota Kinabalu we took an airplane to Tawau, just 50 minutes, we couldn't even feel it.
And, from there, we took a bus to Semporna, which is the base city to reach Pulau Mabul and Pulau Sipadan
On the way to Semporna we met a finish girl named Anni. She said that we should book with one week in advance if we wanted to go to Sipadan.
Yeah, because just 150 people can visit the island per day.
As we didn't know it, we didn't book it. The woman of the agency said it was our lucky day, because two german girls cancelled in the last minute.
What we needed to do was to pretend that we were these german girls. We also got it for a cheaper price.
Funny were our names. My name was Nina and Henrique's name was Stephanie. Of course no one believed that we were they.
And the trip from Semporna to Pulau Sipadan takes one hour by boat.
Of course everybody was all day long making fun of us calling us Nina and Stephanie.
On only on this day we made three divings. So, let's go!!
Our first dive was in Turtle Patch.
By accident I touched this plant that looks harmless... My harm is burned until now.
We saw tens of giant turtles swimming close to us, eating or sleeping. After so many turtles, they became boring to us and we started trying to find sharks.
As you can see, or not, the rockfish is poisonous and hard to find, which makes it one of the most dangerous fish in the world.
It has thorns in its back. If you step on it, *** will happen!!
So, after these 45 minutes diving, we needed a rest. We went to the surface for 1 hour to eat and relax.
Our second dive was in Barracuda Point.
The cool thing about this point are the shoal that we could see. The main one, this one that you can see, is the barracudas shoal, a huge fish.
Another really interesting thing was when we swam toward the shoal. The fish opened a space and you could stay in the middle of the shoal.
There in the middle it didn't matter were we looked, we could see fish everywhere. Sometimes it was scary.
Our third dive was in Coral Garden, where we could see a lot of sharks.
After these three divings, we went directly to Pulau Mabul, a really small island close to Pulau Sipadan.
So, we came here yesterday from Pulau Sipadan, that island over there.
It is one of the best places in the world for diving. We saw a lot of sharks, turtles, fish.
And now we are in Pulau Mabul. It's one of the best places in the world for diving, also, but for macro diving, where you expect to see really small animals.
And as you can see, this is a paradise!!
We are leaving Mabul and heading to Sandakan.