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From previous blog, you will know that Satang Island (Big) is consider as part of turtle conservation in Sarawak. We are being told to move away from the beach by 6pm and have to lower down our voice and avoid noisy sound throughout the night so there is no party going around after the sunsets.

Selfie after our afternoon activities by the beach

The sunset on the other side which is accessible by water but motored boat are avoided after 6pm, so here's the sunset :)

After rushing to the washroom to clean ourselves we start our BBQ session! We are being prepared with BBQ pit but others have to bring by own side ya! Again, strictly no "pork" is allow on the island.

We are allow to use the BBQ Pit and a simple kitchen with gas stove. Really convenient!

Chicken wings on the fire, burning!!!

Burn this also to avoid mosquito

After eating, we are told to expect turtles as told but the guides said these are not confirm so we have our finger-crossed and wait patiently for the call. And we are told to bring our torch and walk slowly to see something.

Everyone is excited! Keep taking photes!

And more... photo taking!

Here you go! The babies is out for the night!

They have really soft shell and very sensitive to lights

Baby turtles are normally hatched by noon time where the sun is at his brightest and hottest but to be hatch during the night is much more safer for them as most predators are less. They will crowd as fast as they can to the seawater. So how they know which direction. Amazing right?! but one thing for sure is, they all crowd towards lights, the moon beams.

We are even luckier to have the mom with us also! We are being lead to the mother turtle who are almost done laying her eggs. We have to wait for the right time to visit her so she won't be shock and return to the sea.

Star of the night!

The turtle was huge! And like many has said, there are "tears" in her eyes. We are allow to take picture of her and touch her but avoid direct light and no flash are allow during the visit. Incredible definitely to be seen.

We also followed mother turtle back to the sea, Escorted all the way till she was out of sight. Then we quickly went back to the eggs!!!

The eggs and ready to relocate to safer place.

We are given chance to "dig" out the egg from the very deep sand and place the in pail for relocation. It's really deep inside the sand for real! I'm the first few to have did it and the depth is already more than 2 feet below surface of the sand! imaging those further below! How on earth can the mother turtle made that hole anyway!

That's what we have being waiting and praying for the experience and we did! Let's call it a night~

Might also want to check this out:-

#1 How to get to Satang Island

#2 The Accommodation

#3 Activities before Sunsets

#4 Activities after Sunsets

#5 Surrounding

8/13/2015 02:00:00 PM
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Satang Island: What to do?

Island

When a place's name starts or ends with the word "Island", you can smell water-related sports!

Satang Island is a simple island where is yet to developed into tourist hot spot (i believe soon), because this island do not like crowds and noisy events as they are not fancy by the turtles here. This island is also part of the turtle conservation area so they did not open for mass tourist.

They do have diving and snorkeling activities by demand only. Since my friends and I are not expert in swimming nor skilled in diving, we go for snorkelling with definitely the life jacket on!

Instead of snorkeling, we are more like playing around the swallow water!

After a few hours, I think we have fun for 2 hours and all of us are exhausted, jelly hands and legs have us become. Since the day was still early, the friendly boatman bring us surround the island. :)

The small island is "Pulau Satang Kecil", the Small Satang Island which was said no man life there.

The "Head" of the Island.

The whole island has the silhouette similar to a turtle, so the previous picture was the head of a turtle

Surrounding the whole island only took us about 20 minute, so we are finally ready to go on shore again

Playing with water while on the way back. Water around the island was crystal clear!

The boat of "Turtle Guard" on the island. They are not staying on this island but was here to protect the turtle and their eggs from intruders

The Small Satang Island namely "Pulau Satang Kecil" just opposite us

We are allow to walk around the shore till 6pm only. They said the turtle will start to go around the island to do "survey" before they feel safe to come up and lay their precious

At Satang Island, the guide allow us to roam around the beach till 6pm only to sure the turtle are dare to come up on the island and lay their eggs. So we clear the beach on exact time and get prepare to clean up and head for own cooked dinner!

Might also want to check this out:-

#1 How to get to Satang Island

#2 The Accommodation

#3 Activities before Sunsets

#4 Activities after Sunsets

#5 Surrounding

8/12/2015 09:14:00 AM
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Satang Island Back to Nature Stay

Island

Satang Island, 30mins boat ride from Telaga Air Matang, Kuching. An easily accessible out-of-town treasure for Kuchingian, perfect for chill 2days 1night getaway :)

Satang Islang (big) have the shape of a turtle from this view. Amazing!

We were provided with simple accommodation with share bathrooms without lighting so be sure to bring torch lights! Well torch are useful during the night too, you will know why in awhile!

Here are some picture of the accommodation area >

The brown chalet have 2 rooms with 2 single bed each.

There are 3 of this cute light green chalet. One of the have 2 single beds while the other 2 have queen size bed.

The chalet was very simple without mosquito netting so remember to bring insect repellent ya!

They are just simple accommodation similar to B&Bs and there are only beds in the room without fan or air-condition facility. So here comes something tricky, without fan or air-condition facility, we definitely would open the windows as wide as we could to also enjoy the salty sea and fresh forest breeze... but at place like this, all types of insects are expectable, obviously! So make sure you have again, lots of insect repellent! All types, any types!

Actually we stay up till the morning bonding, since it's just few hours left to dawn so I slept outside the brown chalet with sleeping bed and pillow from the room.

And for the bathroom, there are 5 bathroom for sharing but only 2 of them equipped with toilet wares. Basically very clean with some fungus, but most importantly, day use lighting or electric are not provided as they run the electric with petrol base generator during the night only. Few pieces of their bath roofing were transparent so with help of the whole year long bright sunshine our weather freely provides, the bathroom consider bright enough for simple cleaning. Do be sure to bring your torch just in case the sun not bright enough.

So here's the bathroom >

Simple bathroom but is clean enough for basic use. Remember to keep clean for our next user.

There is a cooking area too! This is definitely an added value as we though they only have BBQ pit. As this island belongs to a Muslim, no pork is allow on the island or to the kitchen so if you can't live a day without pork, remember to have them before you came to the island :) We are 1 Malaysia with respect always to all our multi-cultural and religion friends!

Here's the kitchen>