On both islands, snorkel tours are available where you put in a small motorboat very cheap to four different places. In addition to this trip we also rent even a kayak and drove almost all the points again, because it was nice sooo 😉 But right from the beach away you get a lot to see underwater life!
T3 is one of the dive sites on Pulau Perhentian Besar in which you will encounter huge rock formations. Some rocks form tunnels through which you can swim through.
The dive site for the slugs, the so-called Nudibranches is known of which there are about 3,000 different species. They are especially famous for the striking colors, some even light up at night.
On a day with rather poor visibility we were rewarded at the end of the dive with a turtle that swam comfortably in front of it.
The dive site is a very good place to test his skills as a diver. It is not easy dive through with all the equipment between the rocks.
On this rock there is a very different vegetation than elsewhere. Generally, it is a rather barren and colors loose Underwater landscape with coral and fish less than a few kilometers away at other dive sites. Nevertheless, it is interesting here to observe especially the small animals such as slugs.
First, I'm not one soooo experienced diver and secondly I have sunken ships so far not really interested great. But then I had the opportunity in Malaysia, specifically on the island of Pulau Perhentian, a wreck in relatively good visibility to visit in reasonable depth.
The ship, which once transported sugar sank in 2000 during the monsoon season and is since removed to 12-18 meters depth only 30 minutes from Pulau Kecil.
Really amazing how many fish have settled there! This shoal of barracuda barracuda or of which there are 26 species and are generally seen as relatively aggressive, swam peacefully past us.
The shipwreck lies laterally on the seabed so that you can see through the Pullaugen.
This puffer fish can inflate at risk by injected water into the stomach. The spikes work so as barbs and makes it almost impossible to swallow the fish for attackers.
Their hexagonal plates made of bone armor is very characteristic of the too fast floating boxfish.
A surprise was waiting for us when we were just in appearance: a snakes-flat tail with a length of about 140 cm swims past us! Basically, the snakes are very shy and they took to flight, perhaps even more so when you consider that a bite could have life-threatening consequences.
The sea urchins were present in large numbers!
The Lionfish belong to the family of scorpion fish and have their hard jets poison that they use exclusively for defense. Here on Sugarwreck they swam in contrast to other dive sites not hidden in the crevices around but move freely on the wreck.
The bamboo sharks are usually not larger than 70 cm and spend most of their time on the floor or slow just to be like here in the wreckage.
