While the Pulau Sipadan location has lots of locations that are widely popular for diving, there is one certain island which has become quite preferred as a dive paradise within the last couple of years, and that is Mataking Island.
This island is privately owned and has 10 dive places where you’ll be able to go for things such as appreciating some of the most lovely coral reefs or discovering different sea creatures and types of fish. For instance, you’ll be able to discover turtles inside their “playground” and see them as they play and simply dismiss your activity.
Being a private property, the only holiday resort on mataking would be the Reef Dive Resort, which offers superb housing facilities in rooms, villas or chalets designed in the conventional local style. Also, the resort provides some of the finest services like the Jamu Spa, Jacuzzi, an Exotic Garden, a shop, a variety of bars along with a sea-facing eaterie, where you’ll be able to take pleasure in intercontinental as well as conventional Malaysian meals and fish dishes.
Travelling to mataking is quite simple. It is possible to do it either by flying from Kota Kinabalu to Tawau, which merely takes you about Forty five minutes, or maybe by flying from Kuala Lumpur or Johro Bahru to Tawau. Even so, the Reef Dive Resort prefers the flight from Kota Kinabalu, as they gather the guests from the flight terminal and drive them for about One hour to Sempona, where they’ll be sent to the resort by ship. The last journey takes no more than Forty minutes.
You’ve a fantastic choice of dive places in the mataking island location. It is possible to see lobsters and nudibranches inside their natural environment within the Lobster Lair and Nudibranch Heaven. The Coral Garden will be the location where you’ll be able to admire the most colorful corals. At the Barracuda Point, you’ll be able to see the popular ray-finned fish, recognized for their big size and fearsome appearance. The Eel Garden will be the location where you’ll be able to see different types of eels, like the “cosmopolitan eels” from the family, the Moray eels.
Don’t neglect to take your underwater photographic camera together with you once you visit the Picturesque Reef, because you will be amazed from the beauty of the marine life there and you will not be able to decide what you should shoot 1st. Going to the Sweet Lips Rocks may be the greatest selection should you be keen on evening diving. The Hump Head Point, the D’Wall House Reef along with the Garden of Eden Reef allow skilled as well as newbie scuba divers to adore the lovely coral structures.
In case you are not really certain yet, you should realize that you will be able to post a postcard to your family through the Marine Post Office added to a wreck, which is the first of this type in Malaysia. You merely need to seal off your letter or postcard inside a special water-proof plastic mailing wrap, and then throw it inside the underwater mail box and let everybody know about the great encounter you had on mataking.