06/02/2010 Lake of the pregnant maiden

We got up and had our included breakfast which was a buffet style with bits of everything but they would also cook you eggs anyway you like. We went for an excellent omelet, expresso and fruit. We headed off for our boat tour. We arrived at the port with the other pile of tourists for our departure time of 10.00a.m. We were put into our group and jumped into our boat. I was happy to see our boat had 2 motors. Well that didn’t help us as we broke down and all the other boats zoomed past us. The driver kept trying to get the motors to go. He eventual he got 1 of the motors going and we crawled our way to the first stop the other boats had zoomed to. It did remind me of a similar incident where the tourists headed out for a 3 hour tour, a 3 hour tour. Anyway after some time another boat came along and we did an exciting in ocean transfer. We finally made it to our second stop. The Lake of the Pregnant Maiden. The new boat driver said be back in no more than one hour. No problem for our group of intrepid travelers. On the wharf the monkeys were waiting. Tracey did have a slight encounter with the furry little creatures. There must have been a monkey baby boom on the island as there were babies everywhere. Cute little buggers but the mothers did get a bit narky if you went too close. They were so darn adorable but we were not permitted to adopt any as apparently their parents wanted to keep them and they were not from Haiti.

We headed off on the trek over the many stairs to get over the hill to the other side of the mountain for a swim in the lake. Apparently women are supposed to get pregnant after swimming in the lake. Well I think it probably has something to do with making out but who I am I to argue. Of course the lake is set up for the tourists and has a huge floating platform for you to jump off. After jumping and swimming we struggled our way out of the lake and up the many stairs back to the other side of the island. It was sad to see the monkeys eating the tourist rubbish.

We found our boat load of tour pals waiting on the wharf. We sat there waiting and waiting and waiting for our boat to return. The other thousands of tourists keep coming and going but we were still waiting and waiting and waiting. Finally one of our group managed to get a text message to our boat operator. Guess what another boat had broken down. Some time after that a boat finally arrived to pick us up. We zoomed off to feed the Sea Eagles. The boat driver chucked a pile of food in the water and the Eagles zoomed down and grabbed it with there feet and keep flying. Pretty cool. We than headed over to the supposed snorkeling beach. Well that was pretty crappy and the waste of paying for a snorkel. So we just had a swim while dodging other tour boats and the parasailing. Trace had a sunbake and I wandered down to the wharf. On the wharf I could see hundreds of fish so I went back got Tracey and snorkeled in. Well we quickly discovered why they said not to snorkel there, The place was covered in prickly black sea urchins. There were heaps of them I had never seen that many not even on the Discovery channel. One wrong move and we would have these things stuck all over us. I decided this was probably not a great way to end our trip so we carefully removed ourselves urchin free and headed back to our boat for our uneventful return back to shore. When we arrived back at the shore they had our pictures on plates, seeing as we didn’t have any plates we bought the one with me on it ‘cause Tracey looked a bit weird not realizing that the photo was being taken. We headed back to the resort for more pool time and that’s about it.

Langkasuka Resort, Langkawi, Malaysia