We started our second day by watching sunrise right in front of our room. Turned out, not only we were able to see beautiful sunrise, but we could see turtles swimming from above.
Excited to start our Island hopping, we left the hostel at 8 AM and forgot one important thing: our lunch box. Bertho (our guide) mentioned that there was not any food stall in the island that we would visit. O well.. what to do.. we may be able to survive with Priscy’s chocolate bars.
Lessons learned: make sure you remember your lunch box!
First island: Kakaban.
We were welcomed by a long dock and wooden stairs in the middle of a small forest. Turned out, behind that forest, there was a Kingdom of Jellyfish in the Kakaban Lake. And yes, those were tame jellyfish where you could swim with it and touch it. It was just amazing. There were like thousands of jellyfish when you snorkeled in the middle of the lake.
Sangalaki
We continued our journey to Sangalaki Island, where there were only 4 people lived and worked at Conservation of Turtle. When we went there and met the guys, surely we found that it was our private island. Here, the men showed us the baby turtles that would be released to the sea during the night time. We did not snorkel/ swim but just enjoying the island and the sun. Thank goodness for these guys, they let us use their kitchen and cook our lunches which were actually their stock of instant noodles. That was just our best instant noodles that we had ever tasted.
Night time at Derawan Island
We were looking for beers, yet it was expensive in Derawan and not many restaurants / shops sold it. Dira Restaurant sold it though, here, we met Ibu Lisda, an woman who consoled us that although most of the people in the Islands did not drink, but she did and it was okay for us to drink too. Ah, what can beat sitting at the dock, drinking beer and watching the moon with the breeze of sea wind. It was just beautiful moment.
