It is a concrete jetty at Pangkor Island.  While waiting for the boat to depart, I took some photos of the jetty and the surroundings.

Waves coming.

Looking back to the Pangkor Island main land.

Can you see the word on the railing?  ”Selamat Datang Ke Pulau Pangkor”  which means “Welcome to Pangkor Island”.

How nice if I can turn this picture into a sunset or sunrise picture.  I can imagine how it looks like.

Can you find 3 pieces of land in the picture above?

On the left, it is the Pangkor Island which connected to where I was standing.

On the right, it is the Mentagor Island.

There is a small area on the right, in front of Mentagor Island.  It is called Giam Island.

This is the Giam Island viewed from another angle.

Giam Island is really small, and from the map it is less than 400 meters from main Pangkor Island.  It is popular for snorkeling.

I have not experienced it, but from what I have read, it might be possible to walk to that island during low tide.

These were what the visitors doing at Giam Island.

At first I thought this is a river mouth, but it is not.  It is the “islands’ mouth“.

Teluk Nipah (Nipah Bay) is facing these 2 islands (Giam & Mentagor), therefore there are many water sports there such as banana boat and kayaking.

There was an empty boat with a Malaysia flag.  I wonder how the driver of the boat get onto it?  Swim or use another boat to reach this boat perhaps?

Not far from the Lin Je Kong Temple, there is a stone area next to the coral beach.

From what I observed on many beaches, stone areas usually appear at the headland/cape (antonym: bay).  This area usually gets stronger hit by waves (I still remember my secondary Geography lesson :p ).

According to one of the photography rules, objects should not be positioned in the middle; the person in the photo above is in the middle, but the “mouth” between the islands is not.   Compared to the first photo, which one do you think is better?

This is a typical photo of the waves hitting the stones.  I didn’t bring my tripod, else I will use an ND filter to take a long shutter shot to create smooth lines of waves.  Next visit, I will stay longer and bring my tripod.

Well, you may ask how to reach this place if you have never been to Pangkor Island.  It is not far from the Lin Je Kong Temple.  At another end of the temple, there is a bridge and staircase.  The stone area is right across the bridge.

The stone area is in front of SiewPeng, whereas the temple is behind.

This bridge has yellow spots highlighted with red outlines.

Standing on the stones, looking backwards to the temple and the beach.

We found a group of visitors looking at something, I don’t know what they were looking at.

As usual, stones which contact with sea usually have sea shells sticking onto them.

The entire process for us to explore this stones area was only about 5 minutes.  We had to be quick, someone was waiting for us.  I just snapped and go.

Travel with people who don’t like to travel (but only like to eat) is not an easy job.  My direction is sightseeing and taking photos, but theirs are looking for food.  SiewPeng and I are vegetarian, where can we find our food in an small island?

Artistic man-made mini mountain.

Personally, I like this garden’s design especially the garden and the footpath, except there are really too many statues and designs which are in cartoon style that do not look natural.  However, it is a great place for photo shooting.

This is the place for praying.

A round stone table and chair with plant in the middle.

Our background: The crane (long necked bird) and the dragon surrounding the incense burner.

Another background: the mermaid.

This stone crane looks huge.

Mermaid.

Mermaid and Crane.

Next post, I will still be showing you the photos of Pangkor but will leave the temple out a bit.  Stay tuned.

I found a small “GuanYin” statue in the temple’s garden.

The yellow flag with red borders.

And a incense burner which is roofed.

We walked up the hill and found this gourd-shaped big red pot.  It is used for planting bamboo.  As I know bamboo (especially purple bamboo) is related to “GuanYin”.

Another big pot.

Turtle from top view.

The red Chinese word on the stone is pronounced as “Nian” which means “Thought“.  This single word is formed by 2 sub-word.  The upper part is “Jin1” which means current moment, and lower part is “Xin1” which mean heart.  When 2 words combined become 1 word, it means what is currently in your heart = thought.

This is the beauty of Chinese word.

The word “Nian” actually cannot be exactly defined by the word “thought”.  The meaning is close but the concept might be different.

I believe that “thought” is as powerful as action, and it is actually an action in our mind which will lead to create another potential action.

I keep on telling myself that positive thought is important.

I like this word on the stone and I took photos of it from different distances and angles.

To be continued … … in Part 3.