Pulau Besar, Melaka again... After almost getting stucked there!

OK... Over the last weekend, I also made my latest visit to Pulau Besar, Melaka and spent a night there. Here are some pictures as me and friend Shamsul head towards the jetty to get back to mainland the following day, on Sunday...

As usual, I like to take the coastal route to and fro the jetty...

The jetty is already in sight here... Shamsul is in the picture dragging along his wheeled rucksack...

Normally at this juncture approaching the jetty, I would stick on to the coastal route. But as there's some rocky path ahead while Shamsul preferred to drag along the rucksack rather than having to carry it up the rocky path, we reverted to the higher path alongside the island's biggest resort (now abandoned again for the umpteenth time it seems...)


And finally we're on the jetty. A look back...


Only to realise that the 12.30pm boat we're chasing have left... 15 minutes early than the scheduled time. While the next boat should arrive at 3.30pm, so they say!

Anyway, this is a look towards the west while the mainland is to the east...

So how? We have a few other places to stop at in Muar some 25km away while we intend to head back to Kuala Lumpur before dusk. What if it's true the next boat would only be available at 3.30pm? Should we wait here and cross our fingers or should we go back to the more interesting parts of the island at least to kill time? What if we head there only to find the boat coming back to jetty out of schedule again?

So instead we decided to take pictures and hope a miracle would happen soon. That's Shamsul trying to squeeze a good picture from a position that looks like he's almost under the van, hehe!

Thank God, some 15 minutes later the boat appeared. As it turned out, the number of passengers then was quite high... after all it was a weekend. So the boat after picking up a full-load decided to leave earlier for the mainland. From the mainland it ferried another full-load of passengers before me, Shamsul and some waiting passengers could get onboard.

Anyway, what a relief. And here's a picture of Pulau Besar as the boat head towards mainland. Cheers! :]