Our trip to Pantai Kerachut was an awesome one. Everything went on smoothly and it was fun. It all began on the morning of the 8th of February. I woke up at 6am. and got ready. Uncle Christopher Lau with Eric picked me , Emmanuel and Jonathan at 7 in the morning. Off we went to penang. We went to a hawker stalls for breakfast
We parked the car on the other side of the road.So we had to cross a very busy road to get to the hawker stalls. However, me emmanuel and uncle managed to cross the road quickly leaving behind eric and jonathan. It took them about 5-10 minutes to cross the road!
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| Eric nd Jon trying to cross the busy road |
Pantai kerachut beach is a part of the Penang National Park.We reached the national park at about 9am. we took out things and went to the main building to register ourselves..
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| Getting our things |
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| All set to go |
Once registered, we had two options to get to the beach, one was going by boat or hiking. We chose to hike there as it the boat ride was expensive. It took about an hour and half of hiking to reach the beach.
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| The entrance to Penang National Park |
Hiking was actually fun. We got a little closer to nature, breathing the fresh air,listening to the sounds of the jungle. But it was quite tiring as we were carrying our bags and tents, and the climbing can be tiring. But the view can be beautiful at times.
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| The top picture shows 30 more minutes to go & the below shows 5 minutes to go |
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| We had to take breaks in between to recharge our energy to continue the hike |
We eventually reached the beach after about an hour and a half. The tiring hike was all worth it in the end as the view was beautiful! The sand was white and soft and the water was so clean. The only dissapointment was the meromectic lake. It was all almost dried up.
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| The Meromectic lake |
Once we were there, we went to the campsite and started unpacking our things and putting up the tents. We put up to tents, one for uncle and eric n the other for me, jon and emmanuel.
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| Putting up the tent After putting up the tents, we had out lunch. Lunch was the food that we packed for the trip.Just simple foods like bread, can foods and instant noodles. once filling our stomachs, we headed to the jetty to go fishing. None of us have any fishing experience besides uncle chris. He gave us fishing lessons and soon we began fishing. At first it was quite difficult as it needs lots of patience and the weather did not help us in any way either as it was hot! But soon we got the hang of it and we cought a couple of fish. we caught a lot of puffer fish. Unfortunatelly, those kind of fish were not edible as they were poisonous. We did caught some other fish as well like swordfish, 'ikan gelama' and a few more. Fishing was fun as it was a new experience for everyone.  |
