We arrived at the Fishing Bay Resort first... its about 10mins from the main beach and apparently this is the better resort to stay if you are planning to stay overnight. The resort has its own beach area, but its a small one. We were there on the weekday, so there wasn't anyone else around and not much was going on... but that was why I chose to make the trip on weekdays.. so that there would not be too many "other" people!!! :)
The chalets look nice enough and its air conditioned with ASTRO... if you people are interested you can always google "air papan" and you will be able to find quite a few reviews of the various chalets available there.
It was super sunny and you can see from the photos that we are actually perspiring on our faces!!! :P The jetty was quite run down, and not as "nice" as you may have seen from the other people's review who were there maybe a year or two ago.
We then proceeded to the main Air Papan beach. I liked the beach. Super long stretch of nice clean beach with nice seas and weather!!!
When we arrived at the beach, the only other people there were a Malay family having a swim in the sea. I think they were locals who stayed just further up the beach.
BB and me were just strolling on the beach, enjoying the sea breeze and trying to see if there were any nice sea shells to pick up as souvenirs... :)
It was REALLY sunny!!! So much that I was squinting when taking this picture. I think the stretch of beach was about 500m long... we walked towards the end which was the rocky part, and from there I took a picture to see how far we walked....
The white thing in the inset is my car. Not bad for an afternoon exercise eh??? kekekeke...
Maybe if we had more time we would have tried to walk pass the rocks to see what was beyond, but the weather was turning quickly as we could see some storm clouds over us as we decided to head back to the car.
And boy it was the right decision as it started to rain when we were about a quarter of the way back. It was more of a heavy drizzle but it was steadily getting heavier and heavier. But I guess it was ok for me and BB as we had not been drenched in the rain for a long time!!! :)
We were half soaked when we reached the car, but luckily we had a towel and brought spare clothings. The rain lasted only for a while longer and from my car I could see some people with a bunch of balloons running on the beach.. WTF????
Hahahaha then we realised that it was a bridal photo/video shoot and their vehicle was the one next to my car. :) But I guessed the came a little too late because even though the rain stopped a little, the skies wasn't clear anymore and it was all a little gloomy.
So after drying up a little, BB and me decided to head for home. It rained again along the way, but I did managed to see some signboards that there were in fact more beaches to the north and south of the town of Mersing. Some were quite far... about 70+km from the town. I think we will try to visit some of those places in the near future. :)
Oh... there are more pictures of this trip in the here.
4 comments:
hi found ur blog from AIM. where's air papan? neway nice pics :) will visit ur blog often.
Actually it is a small town slightly north of Mersing in Johor. Go there only if you enjoy a quiet and clean beach as there isn't any other recreational activities available. Not during the weekdays anyway. :)
oh... good idea. never been to johor...
There are actually quite a number of these beaches along the east coast of Johor. Just need to go there by car as most are not as commercialized as having tourists bus or packages to those places :)
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