Viv wrote:

> Does it have to be a liveaboard?  One landbased island I would love to
dive
> off in Malaysia is Pulau Redang. You can jungle trek, boat & canoe to
break
> the boredom :-) There is even an 18-hole golf course at Berjaya's hotels.

While Redang certainly has better visibility and more potential for pelagic
encounters than Perhentian next door, it can't hold a candle to Anilao or
Puerto Galera for lions and nudis. In 10 dives there, at 5 different sites,
I didn't see a single lion, and I saw maybe a total of 5 nudis.

> It is a marine park & has a couple of shipwrecks worth checking out - The
> HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, sunk there at the start of WWII.

Now THAT would get me to go back. I can't believe I didn't know that! For
some reason, I had both ships much closer to Singapore in my mind.

Bjorn