Matang Dolphin Survey~ 海上的精灵 (Part 2)

On the last day of 1st week, luckiest day for me which we encountered adorable and playful Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins (Watch video in Part 1), our boat skipper was informed by another fisherman that there was a dead dolphin at few nautical miles away.

Vivian, our coordinator, said that after our line transect has been done, then only we go to look for it. At first what I thought was quite impossible to find a carcass in the middle of ocean as it could be float to anywhere which is unpredictable.

However, as the “luckiest aura” goes on and on, with most assistance from our experienced boat skipper, at last it doesn’t took much time to found something that I never saw before ---

a REAL Dolphin dead body.

Matang Dolphin Survey~ 海上的精灵(Part 1)

I saw once before in Facebook, the poster of Dolphin survey in Langkawi, during my undergraduate period. I still remember that my coursemate had been selected but I’m not. Not even a reply… Haiz… What a sad memory…. =(

 

However, during my 4 months break, this poster so called “coincidentally” appeared again when I slide across my News Feed page, which the only difference between the 2 posters was the term “Langkawi” had changed to “Matang”. But the coin doesn’t affect me much, especially my passion and excitement towards the term “DOLPHIN” at all… Hahaha! I guess the feeling is like: Who care about where is the place, the most important thing is I could see the damn cute Dolphs!!!

 

The Langkawi Research Project is a project of The MareCet Research Organization, an NGO dedicated to the study and conservation of marine mammals in Malaysia.

And so, I tried my luck this time to not being rejected like last time. Therefore, I emailed my enquiry but I realize that the survey period was just fitly fell into my activity schedule where between the 2 weeks survey, I already promise to present at my Shequ23’s Zhong Yang wedding dinner and also to attend YBAM National-State Joint Meeting. I started to worried as the requirement mentioned that preference will be given to volunteers who can commit to whole survey period.

 

Takkanlah 2 times both I also couldn’t join?! No wayyyyy…..

 

Mount Kinabalu，我来啦！！！（幕后花絮）

独自一人在巴生KTM站看着黎明的初生

就好象一个人的旅行要开始了似的。。。

Mount Kinabalu，我来啦！！！ （Part 2）

哇哇哇！！！我想这一个续集真的有够久，迟迟未能出炉（冒汗。。。），就连自己放假的这四个月期间竟然可以忙到。。。对不起，应该是懈怠到无法整理出来这一片续集。。。惭愧惭愧。。。对不起了一直叫我update部落格的朋友。。。

东西真的是不能够一拖再拖，因为记忆力有限，现在要从碎片中彻回一副图画，真的是难啊！！！不过，我还是要尽我的能力，将我的旅途一一放进心经里～

话说，前一晚没冲凉就入寝的我，一觉就睡到隔天的凌晨1点吧，然后就与大家陆陆续续地起床刷牙了。哇老耶，真的冷死我啦！！！平时冷气房都已经怕冷的我，在多层寒衣的保护下能够安乐地过了一个晚上，但却在踏出房门的那一步，立即感受到外头超过海拔3000公尺的那一份超强冷气。。。那我肯定是穿到很像洋葱一般，在最外头穿上了终极保护层—Windbreaker，连裤子我都穿了两层，戴上手套和头套，拿着Hiking Stick就从宿舍走去餐厅吃早餐了。

早餐很简单，大家也不敢吃太多，担心一路上急事一来，不知何处解决啊！那大约凌晨2.30，我们就与其他队伍准备就绪，来个最后的攻顶了！过后，我们被告知说待会儿的路线，不适宜懈怠Hiking Stick，所以我们又回到宿舍放回去了。

一开始，由于众多登山者攻顶，所以就好象在人群中排队买票一样，前面后面都是人群拿着手电筒摇晃着，在一些狭小处还有人龙阻塞的情况。一步一步走着阶梯式的山路，虽慢但却又冷又喘。后来走到一段距离了，各个队伍之间的距离也开始拉远了后，我和永源也和其他同伴分开了，我们选择不急慢走，但走到一半也自觉太慢了，所以我们决定快步超越其他队伍的登山者。为什么我们会分开呢？其实原因也是由于我们的登山向导告诉我们，谁有能力上到最顶就一直上去，不要等，因为要赶在5点之前抵达我们的目标—Low’s Peak，捕捉那破晓黎明日出的壮丽奇境。假若5点钟还未到达7km站  -- Sayat-Sayat的话，那么就不用再上去了，因为肯定来不及上到顶峰看日出了，而且下来的时间也会被拖延。