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Mangrove/Kelong Tour
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  • Updated By bpacker on December 22, 2004
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  • Can't wait to dump our car here.. - Kukup
    Can't wait to dump our car
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    After walking around Kukup Luat, I was itching for a little adventure when I spotted a giant signboard advertising for a Kelong/Mangrove Boat Tour at High King Restaurant. What luck! We gladly bought our tickets for the tour after we were assured we could dump our car there.

    Where
    High King Restaurant
    Kukup Luat

    Cost
    RM5 per person, an additional Rm2 for the Mangrove Tour

    Time
    Boat Departs every 15 min

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    Floating Fish Farms
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  • Updated By bpacker on December 22, 2004
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  • Coastal scenary is dominated by floating farms - Kukup
    Coastal scenary is dominated
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    And off we went on the boat tour. The first thing that we saw were the floating fish farms bobbing off the coastal waters of Kukup. On an interesting note, these structures have been used for centuries by the Orang Laut or the Sea Gypsies from Riau, Indonesia.

    Read on to see how fish is kept there..

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    Ready, aim, shoot!
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  • Updated By bpacker on December 23, 2004
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  • Ptui ! ptui! lunch, yum yum - Kukup
    Ptui ! ptui! lunch, yum
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    Other than terrorizing the nurse shark and the sea horse for our entertainment, the fisherman also got his little archer fish to perform a neat trick for us. This little fish stunt blew my belief that all fish are blind and stupid*. Far from it. Those little buggers could aim and spit at their bait well above the water . Not all the aims were accurate though, some unfortunate sods got spat on by these little submarine water pistols after standing stupidly right in front of the bait. Ok, ok, I was one of those stupid sods...


    *You can't blame me. I honestly thought that way after a certain diving incident - a curtain of fish schooled with me and proceeded to nibble me. I was quite sure I didn't look like bait.

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    Pulau Kukup Johor National Park
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  • Updated By bpacker on December 22, 2004
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  • The little red jetty - Kukup
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    We went to tour the largest mangrove swamp island in the world after the kelong trip. Officially speaking of course, this place is called the " Pulau Kukup Johor National Park " . Yup, a long name, deservedly so, after serious government dollars were spent here. Anyway, you'll get to see a little red jetty once you embark on this place..

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    Temple, Houses, Restaurants on Stilts
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  • Updated By bpacker on December 22, 2004
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  • Temples, houses, boats, Kukup - Kukup
    Temples, houses, boats, Kukup
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    Practically all the architecture in Kukup are on stilts. If you click open the picture, you'll notice a red temple admidst the residential houses. Kukup really reminds me of life in the Mekong Delta. The coastal scape is almost similar..

    Read on to see my little side trip to the world's largest mangrove swamp island and kelongs.

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    Seahorse in a Kelong?
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  • Updated By bpacker on December 22, 2004
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    Well, other than fish, this chap had a stash of other sea creatures as well. You can't really see it from this crummy shot of mine, but he actually has a seahorse curled around his finger. Apparently, that's what those little creatures do underwater with seaweed..

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    Keeping Fish within the Kelong
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  • Updated By bpacker on December 22, 2004
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  • Here's how we keep fish, city slickers' - Kukup
    Here's how we keep fish, city
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    After cruising for a few minutes, the boatman took pity on us sods and let us off a floating fish farm. Once we were there, a fisherman started to entertain us by showing us how fresh fish were kept within the fishing nets in the farm...

    Read on to see a shark

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    Under the Boardwalks..
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  • Updated By bpacker on December 23, 2004
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  • Lizard? Mommy, that's a bloody croc! - Kukup
    Lizard? Mommy, that's a
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    After we got a load of the scenary around us, we'd peer over the teak boards every now and then to look at whatever strange swamp creatures lurked beneath. This boardwalk stretched for about 800 metres and it took us around the eastern part of the island.

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    The Indiana Jones Bridge
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  • Updated By bpacker on December 23, 2004
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  • Try not to do the Chi-Hua-Hua on the Bridge - Kukup
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    It came to some surprise of course, when the boardwalk led to a tower and a 30m suspension bridge which straddled across a river ( Sungai Ular ) .

    And it came as a bigger surprise when the forest ranger told us that we were not permitted not to run, jump, play or shake the bridge. Well, you don't say...how did they guess that we were all Indiana Jones and dying to do all that? Well other than the stern warning, we were also told that only three persons were allowed on the bridge at any one time, at a 10-metre gap. Now, that freaked out some poor sods to some extent and some turned back after making a quick conclusion that the bridge wasn't strong enough to bear their weight..

    Well, I had to go on the bridge after I played a game of chicken with hubby...

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    The Observatory
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  • Above the greens at the tower - Kukup
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    It turned out to be a wooden six-storey structure some 30m high. Ok, that's some observatory all right, guess that meant I had to haul my fat self all 6 storeys up..

    And that I did, but I was rewarded with an excellent bird’s eye view of tree tops . I didn't stay for long though, since only 5 sods were allowed at the top, I didn't want to hog the observatory..

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