Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to Everyone!!
Maggie and I are enjoying our last day in Borneo and are heading down to Indonesia tonight to volunteer at the IHF center ( International Humantarian Foundation ) for the next 10 days on the island of bali. We've had an amazing time on the island and had christmas dinner with a dutch gentleman last night, wohoo!
KK ( Kota Kinabalu) is a small city on the northern coast of Borneo sitting on the South China Sea. a few days ago we tried to head up to Mount Kinabalu to climb the 13,500 ft mountain, but we ran into many beuracratic issues and too many tariffs to make it worth our while, so we scrapped that idea and made it back to KK.
Yesterday for Christmas we took a ferry out to Mamutik island, a national park just off the coast of KK, and it was beautiful. We got some snorkels, threw our towels down on the beach, and went for a Christmas snorkel through some beautiful Tropical waters with more species of fish than I could count.
We saw Sea Anenomies, Starfish, Sea Snakes, barracudas, clownfish, pufferfish, etc. etc. and all in some cool coral formations. after a nice day of snorkeling and swimming, we went to head back to the mainland but our boat wasnt coming back for us for another hour, so we relaxed at a cafe on the island, met another super friendly cat ( we named her izzy) it seems like every restaurant in asia has a cat or four that hang out, probably scare off mice and rats, and are always super friendly. Izzy lounged in my lap until our boat showed up to take us back to the mainland, from there we went to meet up with our new dutch friend, steven and see if he wanted to have christmas dinner with us.
Steven met up with us later and we all went to the seafood night stalls in KK where you get to pick your fish out of live aquariums, select how you want it cooked etc. it is a little inhumane but the fish tastes too good for me to lose much sleep over it. after an amazing dinner of King crab, Grouper, satay and veggies we cruised over to starbucks for some free wifi. ( note: all starbucks have free wifi, for anyone travelling with an iphone or laptop.) made a few christmas call and emails, and called it a night.
Hope everyone had an awesome christmas, Merry christmas to my Nana!! Merry christmas to Uncle Bill, Aunt Jack, John, Allison, Mom and Pa, Uncle Ken+ Aunt Barb, Scott + Kiki, Manus + Emily, Brian and Alice, Matt and Lindsey, Andrew, Christine, Joe, Elise, Calvin, Tiff + Scott, Dick and Barbara, Nick and Ellen, Jeremy and Sophie, Lisa and Blake, and everyone else!
Be awesome
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