Gamat, the sea cucumber!
Last night,(5th April 2005) a sms from Antz "Li,i tengok dalam news, kat PD dorang banyak jumpa gamat. You cariklah esok".
I was not that eager to actually search for the sea cucumber, infact i did not know about it until i received the sms that night. The funny thing, i was there, and i did take a dip in that sea water with puchang, late that evening, but nothing was really peculiar, or nobody was mentioning about that sea cucumber. From the news it mentioned, the "remarkable" event happen around 5pm. Hmm....
Anyway, this morning was my last day there, for that short trip. A message from Bro Ayie put my day into pace, but that another different story. So, while i was having breakfast with Puchang,we were talking about Ayie's message, until PuChang asked me about the sea cucumber thingy. "Hmm, kat Glory Beach Resortnyer area, near that side of PD". Hmm, so...it was not at my area than....the Teluk Kemang...
As it was my last day there, instead of heading back to the room for a great morning nap, i lazily walked to the beach. It was a hot day, not windy at all.Thousand of tiny red sand crabs, making way as i follow the water sea line. Hmm,weird but this is nature, even i was the intruder to their so called habitat, but than because i am ultimately larger than them, and as they regard me as a potential predator, they were struggling to ran away, hiding in the sand, making an adequate opening, bowing to me like i am a king. The truth is, if they, just look back, stay, and group together and stay there, eager to tickle me, surely i will be running away. Yet, that's nature....
It was a sweaty beach walk, and i was looking back, counting the meters away from the resort, when i catched a glimpse of a squity looking object. Is that a....sea cucumber? Using the tip of the finger, there it was, the intervertebra that created news a day earlier. Yeah , i found one....the sea cucumber aka Gamat....Now i know why i was strugling in that hot sun, far away from the resort. It was just to be part of the breaking news.
Anyway, i brought the gamat home, to the room. Put it nicely in a cup i found at the beach, putting a shell beside him, with some dirt and a bath of sea water. It was Puchang first encounter with the gamat, and infact, lot of other staff there too. Puchang were asking me, what to name this little creature, i'm not sure if we agree on anything.
Nope, i did not bring the gamat home, neither Puchang. We left it at the reception counter. The thing is, it was not the gamat that fascinated me, as i had touch several before. Yet, the excitement came, cause i was there, at that time and place, and i was among those who managed to catch one at that moment. Of course, i did not make any news on my discovery, but the moment counts.
I was not that eager to actually search for the sea cucumber, infact i did not know about it until i received the sms that night. The funny thing, i was there, and i did take a dip in that sea water with puchang, late that evening, but nothing was really peculiar, or nobody was mentioning about that sea cucumber. From the news it mentioned, the "remarkable" event happen around 5pm. Hmm....
Anyway, this morning was my last day there, for that short trip. A message from Bro Ayie put my day into pace, but that another different story. So, while i was having breakfast with Puchang,we were talking about Ayie's message, until PuChang asked me about the sea cucumber thingy. "Hmm, kat Glory Beach Resortnyer area, near that side of PD". Hmm, so...it was not at my area than....the Teluk Kemang...
As it was my last day there, instead of heading back to the room for a great morning nap, i lazily walked to the beach. It was a hot day, not windy at all.Thousand of tiny red sand crabs, making way as i follow the water sea line. Hmm,weird but this is nature, even i was the intruder to their so called habitat, but than because i am ultimately larger than them, and as they regard me as a potential predator, they were struggling to ran away, hiding in the sand, making an adequate opening, bowing to me like i am a king. The truth is, if they, just look back, stay, and group together and stay there, eager to tickle me, surely i will be running away. Yet, that's nature....
It was a sweaty beach walk, and i was looking back, counting the meters away from the resort, when i catched a glimpse of a squity looking object. Is that a....sea cucumber? Using the tip of the finger, there it was, the intervertebra that created news a day earlier. Yeah , i found one....the sea cucumber aka Gamat....Now i know why i was strugling in that hot sun, far away from the resort. It was just to be part of the breaking news.
Anyway, i brought the gamat home, to the room. Put it nicely in a cup i found at the beach, putting a shell beside him, with some dirt and a bath of sea water. It was Puchang first encounter with the gamat, and infact, lot of other staff there too. Puchang were asking me, what to name this little creature, i'm not sure if we agree on anything.
Nope, i did not bring the gamat home, neither Puchang. We left it at the reception counter. The thing is, it was not the gamat that fascinated me, as i had touch several before. Yet, the excitement came, cause i was there, at that time and place, and i was among those who managed to catch one at that moment. Of course, i did not make any news on my discovery, but the moment counts.
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