A swim in the sea was the first thing on our agenda again today. This time we spent a good few hours out there, enjoying the warmest waters I have ever swam in. That includes swimming pools, paddling pools and any other sort of pool I have been in.

At one point my wife was swimming past me and I wanted to get her attention. Her ears were under water, so she didn't hear me call out her name. I decided I would tap her gently on her side to grab her notice as she floated by me. No sooner had I done this than her fist powered toward me, her arm extended in a vicious full lock in the water. She hit me right in the chest, and got up with a look of panic on her face.

You guessed it folks. Her extensive water threat neutralisation training came into full use today. She concluded that the tap on her side was a shark, rather than the husband she had seen 5 seconds prior to her starting to swim. I have to hand it to her though, her reflexes are rather impressive when it comes to fending off sharks. Unfortnately, much work needs to be done on the strengh of her punches.

Walking through the water, I had a thought that it would be great if aliens from a planet with an atmosphere as dense as water came to Earth. They would be so well practiced at dealing with their dense atmosphere that ours would be easy to walk through at super speed due to a lack of wind resistence. I then wondered how they would breathe if they got here. I also wondered how much wind resistence is the limiting factor in how quickly I get around on foot. After a few moments I abandoned my alien idea.

It transpires that if you spend a few hours in the water under intense sunlight there is a risk of sun burn. I discovered this today. Unfortunately, I discovered it after my shoulders set on fire in the water. They have continued to be on fire all day, despite the ice, cold towels, moisturiser, after sun and freezer that I have put on them. I guess it takes away from the massage pain a little.

After enjoying the warm waters we took a sail boat out towards a smaller island nearby (with cool towels on my shoulders!). It was a lovely sunny trip which took us into mid afternoon. Whilst on the boat we got to see three hornbills fly past us (think Zazu's bigger brighter cousins). It was truly a spectacular sight to see. The gentleman operating the boat for us also told us his terrifying story of when the tsunami hit these shores. He was swept in a giant wave and landed up on a tree a little further inland. Apparently a week before the tsunami 4-500 dolphins had gathered in the sheltered bay. It is incredible to think that they may have known what was coming.

We returned to our hotel room and enjoyed a brief time on the balcony overlooking the rainforest and were joined by some passing monkeys. After this, my wife went down to the spa (apparently it is in some book of the best spas in the universe or something). Unfortunately I was unable to spa due to a lack of male spaers (would I be a spaee?). I headed down to the beachfront with my laptop to write this blog. Unfortunately due to internet connection issues I ended up mainly connecting and disconnecting to the net. I did take a couple of shots of my blog view at the time. You can see now that this blog is nowhere near as the blog that would have been written had I found suitable wireless technology there. Sorry about that.

After heading back to the room to try to extinguish my shoulder blades, we returned to Cenang for dinner. It was here that I had two more genetically modified shrimp. I need to find the secret laboratory that makes these things. I wonder what would happen if you fed whatever they feed these prawns to a blue whale. Just how big would it get?

The waiter at the restaurant was nice enough, but felt compelled to choose my wife's meal for her. Whilst she contemplated what she wanted, he told her to trust him and he would bring her fish that would change her life forever. He also recommended that she have the spicy rice. I really cannot express this enough: if somebody in Malaysia says spicy, they mean the equivalent of Nandos extra extra hot mixed with tabasco and some sort of furnace. This is really good if you want to negate the use of your intestines, and instead burn a hole straight from your mouth down through your abdomen and out. You can avoid putting on weight, and still eat rice. Win-win!

On top of this the rice he recommended wasn't cooked properly. When my wife asked him, he said that the chef here wasn't good at making rice! I thanked him for his recommendation, before deciding to spend his tip on desert.

Our drive back to the hotel was uneventful, aside from the people riding motorbikes without lights!

Q: dusting off an old book for a new read?

A: yesterday was a new tomorrow once

Tomorrow we go on another adventure, so stay tuned for some exciting updates!