Desaru

We set out for a weekend with our kiwi mates Chris and Juliette for a relaxing weekend in Desaru. This is a little place just up the coast from us but on the Malaysian coast. It is a short ferry ride. To get there you book your accommodation and they provide you with a ticket for the ferry ride (normally)...we booked the night before so the ferry ride was non existent... we knew we had to catch the ferry from Changi and went to the ferry terminal at Changi Point. After asking the guy - he assured us we were in the right place so we sat down to wait. the ferry was to leave at 10 am. As the time began to get near to 11 am we asked again but were told that this one only goes to some other jetty that we didn't think we wanted so we left there and caught another taxi to another ferry terminal - unfortunately this one also was the wrong terminal - we finally found the right terminal - Changi Ferry Terminal - only to be told that the next ferry was due to leave at 5 pm that night (some 6 hours away). We went back to Changi Village and had a lunch at the local hawker centre and then went back to the first one to negotiate a ferry ride across in a bumboat. Wayne is sitting in the corner of the bumboat. It takes a maximum of 12 people and took us an hour to get across the waters.
Chris and Juliette settled outside and began reading their books. The day was lovely and we were pleased to be finally on our way. We felt we had already had an adventure before we even got to Desaru.
Looking back at Changi Point Ferry Terminal.
We passed this boat on our way...notice all the tires around the boat - it looks like rough weather but it was really quite calm.
Finally at our hotel, only to find that they had given us rooms with single beds....so we asked for a change of room...this was done and the view was much nicer.





The walk on the beach was just wonderful and beautiful...so worth the trip. We lazed around for the best part of the afternoon, having a couple of cocktails by the pool and swimming to get cooled off.

We ahd dinner at the local restuarant...Waynes came out with what looked like a dunces hat on and underneath was the rice. The meal cosst us 136 ringit...which is about $70...and that was for the four of us.

We went for a ride on a boat to see fireflies, they were interesting and amazing. We thought they were going to bigger than what they are but were just the size of a mosquito.