Advanced Open Water Dive Certification Lang Tengah

One of the joys of scuba diving is that there is always more to learn. We can get every certification under the sun, but probably won't - smile! We did however, decide to get our Advanced Open Water Certification which gives us some more skills that will come in handy like night navigation and deep water diving.

We love D'Coconut Resort on Lang Tengah. Probably the biggest contributor to that love is the man responsible for the dive shop - Don! What a wonderful man. He has a heart as big as Texas and a smile that would melt anyone's heart. He was our instructor for the course and it was fun and meaningful. Learning a lot is easy when you have Don at the helm. Even for us "old farts" as my husband would say.















Clown fish are one of my favorites. I guess it's because of Nemo. They are difficult to get good photos of because they are always darting to hide in the anenome. One day, I'm bound to get a good one that's a keeper.
















Van and Don (Dive Master Extraordinaire) do their safety stop at 5 meters. We followed the buoy line down (the new one). The old line was full of "growing things."

Fish everywhere. I love looking up to see what is above us. It's easy to get mesmerized into looking down, but up has some beautiful things to behold as well as down.

A beautiful sea fan. Their job is to filter food that is passed through their "fan" by the current. They are big and beautiful and usually in the open so where there is more current.

Lang Tengah is on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia and one of the best and closest places to scuba dive. It has some big spiders, but luckily, they are pretty much off the beaten path!

On the other side of the island is a new resort and this is their brand new dock at sunset. We walked over to see the sunset and check out the new resort. It is really expensive and we have no plans to stay anywhere but the D'Coconut.

It was nice to see the other side of the island. The clouds were big and beautiful over mainland Malaysia. Over the islands, they weren't so big or threatening.














Before sunrise on the bay near the new side of the D'Coconut Resort. We have stayed on both sides, but prefer the older side closest to the dive shop.














The water is beautiful and the rocks are marvelous. Underwater, you are treated to some wonderful coral and swim throughs associated with rocks like these.




















I love the clouds in the tropics. They build and build then you have a fantastic thunder and lightening storm that turns the skies dark as night in the middle of the day.




















Another view of the bay in front of the resort. Litter is always a problem in Malaysia. Van and I grabbed a garbage sack and picked up the litter on the beach. We decided we were going to do that everywhere we went. Maybe we'll help, just a little bit at a time.














This was airbrushed on the side of one of the buses transporting people to/from the jetty. I liked it. It reminded me of what I would have looked like underwater had I started diving in my twenties instead of fifties! LOL.