24 July: Kayaking and snorkeling at JI LUNG

so about a few weeks ago me and the boys signed up for a trip to ji lung to kayak and snorkel .

we boarded the bus at 8 am and headed out to shihlin first to fetch the other half of the students from the other school and headed to the ji lung area to have fun.

it was around 1hr plus ride and we arrived at the place, we didnt put on sun screen as the place we will be snorkeling at is actually a government protected nature reserve for some of the rarest corals and fishes in taiwan.

So to begin , we went to take our equipment, a anti slide shoe , life jacket and a snorkeling mask and also a helmet.

we headed out and picked our boats and paddle sticks. I partnered with xuan you , one of our taiwan schoolmates for the 2 man kayak .

we started off pretty roughly lol i would say, we had difficulties catching up and often sway in the other directions which could be very dangerous as there are sharp rocks and fragile corals around the area.

we managed to arrive at Point B , a place where we have to go through a series of lessons.

Jumping from a high ground and dive into the deep ocean. Which is very scary when i stepped on the first stages ledge, the ledge was a rock.

so i jumped down and gushed through the deep water safetly. it was fun. very fun haha although some water went in my nose.

so the next lesson well , we went to a higher ledge on the same rock, the rock is a huge boulder in the middle of the sea.

well i did not hesitate and jumped straight away.

and now for the third lesson, each of us except cindy ( teacher) climbed one by one to the highest point of the boulder.

I climbed, it was terrifying yet exciting.

the instructor was telling me to go whenever i feel like it, to be honest i dont really scared, just excited actually.

but heres the part where i screwed up , when i leapt of the rock, i dont know why but i tucked my legs in and my ass was first to land on the water, so i literally dive bombed my ass into the deep ocean , when i got up my ass felt like someone just gave me a wide ass spank on it.



after wards, we picked up the snorkeling googles and head down to swim , and admire the deep blue sea of ji lung , its okay . i wont say its that pretty but overall its still a good view of the corals and stuff, though i had like 5 gulps of sea water. swimming halfway we looked down and the instructor dived under to take a pic for us , which is cool af.

So after that, we had to kayak back, well long story short we capsized on the way back ,lol.
i actually wanted to capsize for along time as i wanna feel the thrill of it, not sure for xuan you though.but the capsized was not planned and we both got so embarrased as we are the last ones to get on shore .

after returning the kayaks equipments (which is so damn tiring)
we had lunch.

then headed towards the aquariums the center had and learnt about the areas eco system...
and many kinds of endangered fishes and saw a huge grouper that can knock me out with one swing.

after wards we thanked the instructor and headed home.

it was indeed a fun day!