We were very excited to find out that a campground on the beautiful Perhentian Islands had two volunteer vacancies that Grant and I would be filling for a month. It sounded too good to be true: bioluminescent plankton, turtles laying…
Mabul – SCUBA, SCUBA, SCUBA II
Semporna, Sipadan, Mabul, and Kapalai. This is the holy grail for scuba divers. Semporna, a kind of sketchy and rag-tag town, is the departure point for about a a dozen islands and nearly a hundred unique dive sites. Mabul is…
Kinabalu National Park – Summitting, Birding, and Waiting
Kinabalu National Park is two hours inland from Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Borneo. It’s headquarters is located at about 5000′, and the weather, compared to the sweltering heat of the jungle and coastland, is excellent. Kinabalu National Park is home…