Thursday, January 13, 2011

HALF MOON BEACH

Aktiviti weekend ni ialah ke Half Moon Beach bersama geng-geng Malaysia... Perjalanan asal kami dari Jubail bersama 2 other families iaitu Kak Latifah/Abg Khairi n Yas/Nizam. While the other 4 families - Kak Zura, Kak Jah, Kak Maznah n Kak Noor dalam rombongan lain as they're going to visit a friend in hospital first, then only will join us at the beach.

Disebabkan dalam rombongan kami tu mmg takde sapa2 pun yg pernah pergi ke sana, maka we all mmg depend sepenuhnya lah on the GPS. Jarak perjalanan seperti yg ditunjukkan oleh GPS ialah 97km dari rumah.

Malangnya bila sampai di pertengahan jalan (dah kt Dammam), banyak jalan yang sedang under construction. Dan jalan-jalan yg dicadangkan oleh si GPS semuanya tidak boleh dilalui. Kebanyakan jalan meletakkan signboard "DETOUR AHEAD", bermaksud kena cari tempat U-turn (and usually it takes about 4-5km) utk masuk ke jalan yg dikehendaki.

The road condition makes our journey agak tak smooth. We have to stop by few times kat tepi2 jalan for discussion between the drivers. We asked people here n there, which most of them yg ditemui just know to say "yamin" (kanan) n "shimal" (kiri).

However, when others are getting stress sbb dah sesat entah ke mana2, and no sign of beach yg nampak instead of desert, I ni pulak have another feeling :) Hehehe....

Know what? I really feel excited! Excited to be lost! Hahahaha... Seriously I really like it when we have to stop for discussion, reading our own map n draw it on the sand, instead of just follow the gps. I was so excited to go on adventurous journey, guna jalan2 yg ada cabaran sikit, compared to just guna highway yg lurus n membosankan mcm tu jek. (Well, I was a member of Kelab Kembara in school and we went for camping in jungles n caves... :))

So setelah bersesat-sesatan selama 3 jam (supposed to reach in 1 hour jek!), akhirnya sampailah jugak ke tempat yg dinanti-nantikan. Actually masa dah last2 minit before sampai tu, almost all of us (maybe except me sorang je!) dah berputus asa and decided to just pergi jek picnic kat mana2 tempat sebab perut dah berkeroncong dari pagi tak makan (kami bertolak pukul 8 pagi...just imagine..) Tapi Alhamdulillah... dgn berkat kesabaran dan usaha semua, Half Moon Beach kini di depan mata.

Tempatnya Subahanallahhh.... mmg cantik yg teramat sgt indah! Air lautnya biru kehijauan (tak mcm pantai PD n Langkawi yg skrg dh nampak mcm air Sg. Korok je). Pantainya pulak mmg bersih dan cantik sangat. Kalau berdiri kat tepi pantai boleh nampak air yg sgt-sgt jernih.

Di seberang jalan daripada pantai tu pulak ialah desert yang jugak sgt bersih dan indah. Di sini tempat orang (lelaki) main ATV. Yang ni I tak nak cerita lebih sbb I jeles takleh join sekaki!

Facilities are quite satisfying - ada paip2 air, ada pondok utk piknik yg selesa, ada toilet (toilet je yg kureng skt), and yg penting ada petunjuk kiblat kt pantai nih, I loike! So amat recommended utk pergi ke sana cuma bersabarlah dalam mencari jalannya buat masa ni sbb jalan yg mudah mmg tak ada sbb under construction. Tapi tak le bleh pegi tiap2 minggu mcm Fanateer beach kot sbb agak jauh :)

Agenda pertama bila sampai - kita makan dulu!

Pondok utk piknik. Ada tempat bbq sekali...

Kanak-kanak riang ria di tepi pantai

Ada boat yg boleh disewa utk round2

Geng bapak2 n anak2 lelaki main ATV

Geng ibu-ibu ditinggalkan - refreshing ourselves with latest gossips :)

Zuzu & Yaya - enjoying the cool breeze n "pure oxygen" :)

With their lovingly ibu angkat :)

Ok, dah ready nak balik... (dah dekat Maghrib nih)

Oh, one more thing I nak pesan, kalau sesapa yg ke sana time musim sejuk camnih, silalah pakai baju 2-3 helai (or better if u hv long john) dalam abaya, and bawaklah sehelai lagi sweater utk pakai kt luar. Muka I nih dah takleh senyum. Memang beku I tell you...!!!!