As if I need reminding that water can be a rough place to travel over! The last two days we have traveled over to some small islands off the coast of Kota Kinabulu, they looked lovely, beautiful white sand beaches, forestation covering the rest of the island and not too much by way of shops. The first island, Manukan was small and beautiful, we found a place under the trees to sit right on the beach and spent the day swimming, snorkelling, reading and walking around the island. It was lovely! The second island trip started with a slightly rough crossing, not helped by the boatman seeming to enjoy soaking his passengers. The island was quite big so w walked around it first and saw two quite incredible monitor lizards on the path. They were about
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