3 Boats and 1 Van to Survivor Island

The ferry boat.

River side housing.

He introduced himself as Suddam Hussien!

Interesting snacks in the duty-free.

Our first speed boat.

A local woman waiting for a boat.

And our second speed boat as my red bag is unloaded at...

My cabin.

The beach looking at our wharf.

Monitor lizards that prowl the grounds.

Saturday, June 16^th.

We were up really early for breakfast before beginning our travel day. We left the hotel and walked a short distance to the ferry terminal. We were going from Sarawak to Sabah so we had to have our passports checked. Then we boarded the long skinny ferry that took us from Limbang, Sarawak to the Federal Territory of Labuan. It took over two hours and they showed a movie on it, but I dozed off and on. At Labuan there was a small duty-free area where people could buy booze, beer, candy, chocolate and cigarettes. Then we took a speed boat with twin two hundred horse power motors from, the Federal Territory of Labuan to Menumbok, Sabah. There we were taken by two vans for a forty-minute drive from Menumbok to Kuala Penyu where we boarded another speed boat to go from from Kuala Penyu to Pulau Tiga, otherwise known as Survivor Island. This is where they shot one of those episodes.

The resort was built here after that, about twenty years ago. It is owned by a Chinese man and is looking tired and old, although it does have a certain charm. There is a mud volcano here about a kilometre inland and some of our group went there for the therapeutic mud. I decided to hang out on the beach, enjoy the warm water, and finish my Shortest History of Europe book.

We met up for a buffet dinner and had a couple of beer. I spent part of the evening showing Anthony and Viv some of my little videos. Everyone went to bed about 9:30. I have my own room again for the two nights here.