What to do in Pulau Kapas?

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As mentioned in the previous blog post, Kapas Island is an island located about 6 kilometers east of Marang, Malaysia, with a smaller island, Gem Island, located north of it. Pulau Kapas refers to the island's white beaches. The island is full of tropical jungle, clear seawater, white sand beaches and coral reefs in the surrounding waters. It is promoted as a "diving and snorkelling paradise". Therefore, in this post, I will be going to talk about my diving experience in Pulau Kapas. 

Pulau Kapas

Diving is a mode of underwater diving where the diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, which is completely independent of surface supply, to breathe underwater. As Pulau Kapas had been promoted as a diving paradise, therefore i had choose to explore the underwater world of it. 



Morning dive
Nemo

Eel fish - is any ray-finned fish belonging to the order Anguilliformes, which consists of four suborders, 111 genera and about 800 species. 
Eels undergo considerable development from the early larval stage to the eventual adult stage, and most are predators. 

Pipe Fish - a subfamily of small fishes, which together with the seahorses and seadragons. 
Pipefish look like straight-bodied seahorses with tiny mouths. Many are very weak swimmers in open water, moving slowly by means of rapid movements of the dorsal fin. 

Stoned fish - is a fish species known as the reef stonefish. 
A carnivorous ray-finned fish with venomous spines. It lives on reef bottoms camouflaged as a rock.
It is the most venomous known fish in the world and it can be lethal to human. 

Lion Fish - Is a genus of venomous marine fish, native to the Indo-Pacific. 
It is characterised by conspicuous warning collaboration with red, white, creamy or black bands, showy pectoral fins and venomous spiky fin rays. 

Night dive

Crab


Baby Crab


In a nutshell, the visibility in Pulau Kapas is quite clear (5-10m) and there was a lot of marine life underwater. The average temperature underwater was 28.5 celcius and full of corals and reefs. I would have agreed with the title of paradise of diving in Pulau Kapas after my experience in there. 

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