cerita dan gambar untuk tatapan anda di kuala terengganu

Few friends and I will travel by road and will be joining the Barisan Rakyat Bloggers starting from January 14, 2009 in Kuala Terengganu. We will return to Kuala Lumpur on January 18, 2009. I look forward to touch base with them and will report on my impressions to you. In the meantime, here is Haris Ibrahim’s report (No. 4): A Tale of Two Jetties.

For your information, the DJ did not feature his choice of songs and music last weekend. The reason for this is quite straightforward. He does not want to distract you from what is happening in Kuala Terengganu and Gaza.—Din Merican

From Haris Ibrahim in Kuala Terengganu reports:

Well, actually, one ‘about to fall apart’ jetty and a spanking new marina, both at Pulau Duyong, now famed for the Monsoon Cup.

First, though, a slight digression.

As we made our way out to Pulau Duyong this morning, we had to pass the Crsytal Mosque again.

These photos, I think, will illustrate what I had posted earlier.

This photo taken from the road that approaches the bridge linking to Pulau Duyong

Photo taken a little way down the same road. You can see the minarets of the Crystal Mosque just over the trees

Train the line of the camera down from the treetops and you get a shot of the rooftops

Still further down

At Pulau Duyong, enroute to the Rya Heritage Spa & Resort that houses the Heritage Bay Marina that is the site for the Monsoon Cup, we came upon a fishing village. There has been no fishing there for the last 7 days as the sea conditions have not been kind.

No fishing, so make do with a game of dam instead

This is Pak Daud. Has 4 kids. Says he’s lucky if he can earn RM100 a day from fishing. Asked how he copes when he can’t fish, he shrugged his shoulders.

The average house here

except that of the retired state director of works

Where Daud and other fishermen moor their boats

The jetty, or what’s left of it

The precarious gangway that leads to the jetty

From where I stood speaking to Pak Daud, I took the following shot.

This building houses a huge industry and blocks the view of the Heritage Bay Marina.

What industry?

Shipbuilding

This houses the shipyard. Word has it that someone with close government links got himself a RM2.5m cruiser foc for helping to secure this parcel of land for this venture. We’ll continue to dig.

And, now, to Heritage Marina Bay.