Visited Desaru over the weekend with my parents and relatives. Took the half hour ferry ride at 1230pm from Changi Ferry Terminal yesterday. Didn't know that there's ferry to Desaru... Cool... beats travelling by coach but the terminal is at such a ulu place.
After lunch, we checked into the Desaru Golden Beach Resort for a rest before going to the Desaru Fruit Farm for dinner at 6pm. There was a ktv competition and some uncles and aunties took to the stage to show off their vocal powress (or lack of).
Since the night is still young, we proceeded to fireflies sightseeing! We have to take a boat down a river/pond/lake/erm.. some water. Anyway, this is my first time seeing fireflies so i was very excited. i was expecting to go into some dark cave and see the fireflies inside it so i took up the front seat cos there's no shelter blocking the ariel view. As the boat slowly maneuver down the river with vegetation on both sides, my cousin sitting behind me suddenly spotted the fireflies! It finally dawned on me that the flickering lights on the trees are the fireflies! hehe. As we flow down the river, more and more lighted trees could be spotted. When it was time to turn back to the jetty, the boatman suddenly swerve the boat into the trees! i had a shock of my life as i was sitting right in front! Oh no!! i thought i was going to smash into the trees! Turned out that he wanted to let us have a closer look at the fireflies. hehe. It was really pretty. i was quite afraid of the fireflies initially cos i thought they bite or will be very hot (cos fire mah... :p). Well, they are more like flying ants that glow. i captured a few in my palms but they soon escaped when i opened a small gap to look at them. hee..
i think the fireflies would be even more beautiful if the sky is not so brightly lit by the almost full moon. Oh, regardless of the not-so-dark sky, there are lots of stars! Long time since i last looked up to view stars. Used to do that quite often in my old house when we were staying higher up. :)
After the fireflies adventure, we returned to the resort for a night rest.
Basically Sunday's programme is visit to fruit farm and ostrich farm. Got to eat the fruits from the trees at the fruit farm. And managed to see an ostrich give birth to an egg at the ostrich farm. Gosh the ostrich egg is big! And it can take my weight!! OMG! :p
Oh if you happen to go Desaru, don't stay at the same resort. The heater's faulty in our room. Had to take cold showers for 2 days. Aircon is leaking and it freezes at 30 degrees C! Don't think would go back again. But i really wanna bring home a fireflies-lit tree! (^^,)
After lunch, we checked into the Desaru Golden Beach Resort for a rest before going to the Desaru Fruit Farm for dinner at 6pm. There was a ktv competition and some uncles and aunties took to the stage to show off their vocal powress (or lack of).
Since the night is still young, we proceeded to fireflies sightseeing! We have to take a boat down a river/pond/lake/erm.. some water. Anyway, this is my first time seeing fireflies so i was very excited. i was expecting to go into some dark cave and see the fireflies inside it so i took up the front seat cos there's no shelter blocking the ariel view. As the boat slowly maneuver down the river with vegetation on both sides, my cousin sitting behind me suddenly spotted the fireflies! It finally dawned on me that the flickering lights on the trees are the fireflies! hehe. As we flow down the river, more and more lighted trees could be spotted. When it was time to turn back to the jetty, the boatman suddenly swerve the boat into the trees! i had a shock of my life as i was sitting right in front! Oh no!! i thought i was going to smash into the trees! Turned out that he wanted to let us have a closer look at the fireflies. hehe. It was really pretty. i was quite afraid of the fireflies initially cos i thought they bite or will be very hot (cos fire mah... :p). Well, they are more like flying ants that glow. i captured a few in my palms but they soon escaped when i opened a small gap to look at them. hee..
i think the fireflies would be even more beautiful if the sky is not so brightly lit by the almost full moon. Oh, regardless of the not-so-dark sky, there are lots of stars! Long time since i last looked up to view stars. Used to do that quite often in my old house when we were staying higher up. :)
After the fireflies adventure, we returned to the resort for a night rest.
Basically Sunday's programme is visit to fruit farm and ostrich farm. Got to eat the fruits from the trees at the fruit farm. And managed to see an ostrich give birth to an egg at the ostrich farm. Gosh the ostrich egg is big! And it can take my weight!! OMG! :p
Oh if you happen to go Desaru, don't stay at the same resort. The heater's faulty in our room. Had to take cold showers for 2 days. Aircon is leaking and it freezes at 30 degrees C! Don't think would go back again. But i really wanna bring home a fireflies-lit tree! (^^,)
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