The lake I've just discovered near my house....

Making excursion from the Brunei stories... again...

Today at noon I went to a certain place just a kilometre away from my house.

It is just only a week ago or so that I noticed there's a big lake around...

Funny. I've been plying the nearby road from Bandar Tasik Puteri to Batu Arang the last 2 years but only recently noticed the lake, even then after my wife saw it first...

Zoom in. Later that night I checked using Google Earth and confirmed that there's indeed a big lake here...



Now time to find a way to get in near...

As you can see in the earlier pictures, the nearby area is swampy. So I have to find a more solid route to get inside...

Luckily I could find one nearby...

Then I found a part with plenty of yellow discoloured rocks...

Is it possible the rocks are actually ruins from some sort of ancient stone building?

Anyway as I pressed on I found another access...

There's a sandy road which should be able to connect to the nearby main road, albeit from a further junction.

I followed the route to get in deeper.

Soon, the lake is in sight...

Ah. How could I not noticed such a big lake like in the vicinity of my house before?

Mind you, the lake is more than 300 metres wide...

And it stretches almost a kilometre long with one end just about 500 metres from my house!