A random beach walk all of a sudden
This was well planned by the company, there's budget needed to be spent, or it's going to become tax. I'm just pure luck to have this opportunity to go out with my new colleagues for a short weekend getaway.
I have absolutely no idea what does it say, perhaps those who can read it can translate for me. For now, let me take you to one of the beach I have known for more than decade but still not able to put my foot on until now.
Port Dickson 4 mile beach is one of the famous camp site as it has shallow water and huge boats does not come near to this shore. Perhaps, it's my luck to share a room with another 2 big guys who snore even louder than me, so I get to wake up early and see some sunrise.
The low tide does form a somewhat interesting view of the west coast of peninsular Malaysia facing the Malacca straight.
The resort hotel we're staying is one of those old school romantic above water resort. Swimming pool operate from 9am until 9pm. They even have children size water slide.
It was 6:45 in the morning, I decided to start the day with my usual routine, go for a walk.
There is no proper pedestrian walk. I mean they do have a very narrow walk path, but I imagine if someone is walking from the opposite direction, one will have to step out of it and hit a car or a bike.
Not far from our resort hotel, I found the secret portal that allow anyone to drive the car in. I forgot to mention, I was transfered to this region for work, so I'm actually quite familiar with these secret places. The only thing I didn't do back then, was actually take time and walk the beach.
The sky was actually still quite dark, somehow my crappy phone camera find it's own way to increase the brightness to these shots, which I'm not complianing of.
Looking back some distance behind me, was the resort hotel we're staying. Those over the water chalet extended to the sea is marvelously amazing(except we we're scared to the crap out of the pee hole the night before due to thunderstorm).
By 7am, it's official sunrise time in our country. It's less dramatic to see the light switch flipping mode here than in Kuala Lumpur. Perhaps here we have less highrise building to block the sunlight.
As I have mentioned, there's so many cars crash into this beach and many of them have a huge family of 10 making a huge army tent, cooking, spitting and probably shitting here, so it's not exactly the kind of beach you'll want to swim in.
As soon as I saw the sunll ray blasting through the trees, and decided to take another shot of the sunlight. Somehow, the damn phone now decided to adjust the brightness lower, and once again I'm not complaining. Perhaps the damn phone knows better than myself in taking pictures.
That was about it for the entire stretch of 4 mile beach. Towards the end of the beach is a small manmade cliff, and ontop of that was a motorhome campaign site. Once again, I have absolutely no urgent to walk there.
Once I turn back, I saw there was the red color ship I've seen the day before when I sneaked out of the company event, and went to the waterfront commercial center some 4km away. If you drive, 4km is nothing. When you jog on a jogging track, 4km is peanut. Have you try beach jogging? And immediately I decided I will not try to beach walk that 4km to that boat.
Instead of the beach, with the amount of sand I have managed to accumulate with my sports shoes, I decided to take a slow walk back to the hotel via the park.
Well, once again you can't expect it to be too clean. It's a weekend, and many of the locals like to spend a night here with their tent, and start to make rubbish here and there.
I kid you not. This part of the beach is the highest glory of all tourism insanity. They gave nigh market here every night, and people will walk over to buy food in plastic bags, consume those food in their tent overnight and throw whatever out for the convenient of it.
Here, this is the exact location of the 4 mile night market. Pasar is market, malam is night. Batu is stone(literally meaning milestone). So this is literally the night market place. Imagine they have this kinda rubbish maker almost every mile apart.
Those vehicle by the road side, are those camper literally chuck their vehicle by the roadside, and proceed to camp at the beach side. Pardon the garbage view.
Last but not least, at least there's enough signboard to remind people how should they behave, but I guess with the Malaysian mentality, these sign are made for the next person to follow. I myself have such an experience where I "got rid" of a plastic bag and got questioned by my own children.
Oh and one last note. If you're sensitive to noise especially sleep time, just standby earplugs or make sure you party hard enough before going back to the chalet hotel. This place is one of the most important route to the international airport.
Pantai Saujana Port Dickson
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Address: 300, Jalan Pantai, Taman Dato Haji Abdul Samad, 71000 Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan
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The beach scenes are captured really well, the scenes are quite mesmerizing but some scenes in between are rubbish, which really disappointed me. This problem is seen not only in your place but also in ours, everyone enjoys and then causes extreme damage to the environment, which is not desirable in any way.
It is what it is. The people are less environment conscious, the government is not doing enough for the people, this is the result.
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The first picture says "chan raak kun" and it means "I love you."
Ah thanks buddy. Wasn't expect an expat live in Viet to answer this. I remember you said before this you're in Thailand for some time alaready. I was thinking if it's Thai. I tried to Google lens it, ended up the translator went haywire 🤪
I lived in Thailand for over a decade and at one point I employed over a dozen people and more than half of them didn't speak any English. I learned Thai which was the most difficult thing I have ever attempted to do in my life... and I went to graduate school. Of all the non Thai people in the world I am likely in the top 1% of Thai speakers so yeah, I'm kind of proud of that :)
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Port Dickson looks like a nice place, and you captured some beautiful shoreline sky shots.
Group littering is an interesting phenomenon that really puts on display the human herd mind.
Once the accepted social behavior is to contribute to the heap beneath the feet, don't be the oddball throwing your trash in the can where it belongs or you get the shameful looks.
Correct. I usually do the right thing, until that 1 time I couldn't find a trash can anywhere within my car, and all of a sudden I became one of those idiot who think "it's only 1 piece of garbage", just like everyone else.
Soon as I entered the vehicle, my dotter asked me where's that plastic bag... I was like eeeee....eerrrrrr....arrrrrr... And then received that nasty stare down. From there on, no matter how hard it is, I'd rather bring along the piece of trash home. If everybody think "it's only one piece", the world already flooded with garbage.
When I was a young man I would actively call people out who did things like throw trash on the ground or light a smoke at a gas station. What I experienced 9 out of 10 times is argumentative justification or deflection.
People have accountability problems.
I don't even bother calling out bad behaviors as much anymore, would rather not get assaulted verbally or physically.
Situation dictates. Sometimes I just can't help myself from asking a person why they're acting like a piece of trash. (Slang here..."trashy person")
Please, the noise of the planes, the snoring of your companions, then you don't sleep hahahaha, a bit of a walk, I don't know how to say it, you enjoy it but you don't sleep hahahaha, well the place looks good, but not with so much garbage, in relation To take the photos, the camera helps, but you are the one who looks for the angle, but I like how the sun looks behind the trees.
A hug and sleep, sleep, sleep hahahaha
Yes. It was fun, but a perfect disaster at the same time. It's kinda scary living in a wooden chalet at the middle of the sea, especially thunderstorm sets in. The wooden doors banging, the glass window vibrating violently, and the wind blowing with high pitch whistling sound, pretty darn epic.
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STOPSnoring roommates is something I can relate with on business trips and church conferences. I'm up at 4:30 am then and have nothing to do. It's good to see the shitty side of things. I know the sea is full of shit, but it is always disgusting when someone takes a crap on the beach. The trash is just as disgusting. Maybe because it is occupied mostly at night, people don't care because they think they can't see it and what we can't see doesn't exist. The universe is kind of a joke. While one idiot meticulously maintains his mansion grounds in Southern Florida, another beach is becoming a dump across the ocean. They will both suffer the same fate of flood.
This is one epic comment of the century. I can totally relate that, it's the same ocean in the end.