Watercolours Dive Centre Blog

Save the turtles of Terengganu! Please support our campaign!!!!

The turtle eggs of our islands are not protected at the moment as the turtle conservation project is not running. This is resulting in all the eggs being poached. It is still legal to sell turtle eggs in Terengganu (with the exception of leatherback eggs). We are asking the state government to make the sale and consumption of all marine turtle eggs illegal and to further protect the turtle eggs of the Perhentian Islands and beyond.

Please send an email to savetheturtles@watercoloursworld.com to register your support. We will hand all emails and a petition in at a later date. You only need to write a couple of sentences, such as:

I would like to ask the State of Terengganu to make the sale and consumption of all marine turtle eggs illegal and to install better protective measures to prevent the poaching of eggs from nesting turtles.

Email to savetheturtles@watercoloursworld.com with a suitable title.

Thanks

We just did another! Thanks to our Impiani guests for helping out on this one. We collected a further 53 bags of plastic and polystyrene and even an old tv set! Combined with yesterday’s beach clean that amount to 75 bags of rubbish. Pat yourselves on the backs everyone!

We’ve done 2 beach cleans this month. This one collected 22 bags of plastic and polystyrene from our beautiful Tiga Ruang beach. A special thank you to Luca (age 5) who participated with mum. Well done everyone!!!

Sobri from our Paradise Resort made this impressive sketch of Impiani. I thought it should go on our website for others to see…

We’re sorry to see you go…. good luck with the wedding mate! Keep in touch.

Congratulations on becoming a PADI Divemaster Marcus. The ocean is your office

On a less-busy afternoon we decided that our boatmen and compressor guys should experience what they see us do every day… so we took our Watercolours staff on a Discover Scuba Diving experience. We had a lot of fun

Deep Sea News’ Kevin Zilnio points us to a great piece in The Independent describing what has become known as the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” or “trash vortex” - essentially a floating expanse of waste and debris in the Pacific Ocean now covering an area twice the size of the continental U.S. Believed to hold almost 100m tons of flotsam, this vast “plastic soup” stretches 500 nautical miles off the Californian coast, past Hawaii and almost as far as Japan. Read more of here

We didn’t get a choice about this one! Our good friend K.C. got bored with setting up facebook accounts for his friends and decided to set one up for our dive centre also. If you have a facebook account you can now join the Watercolours Dive Centre group by searching for ‘Watercolours Dive Centre‘.

Last year DYK (Scandanavian diving magazine) got in touch with me to ask for an interview. This is now out, although they haven’t sent me a printed copy yet. You can read the article here.

We are very happy to say that we have put a lot of work into Impiani this year and the resort is looking good. Anke and I have just returned from seeing the workmen and they’ve done a great job painting the rooms and fixing the roofs. They’ve been busy in the restaurant also, restoring the furniture and painting the whole place. The new beach chairs are in constant use and we have had some very good feedback from our guests on the work done so far. The new terrace decking is very popular for breakfast and the new barbeque stand is just about to be finished. We now offer pizzas and bbq every night on our Impiani menu. When i get some time i’ll have to upload some photos! Hopefully I will also get some time soon to finish our website www.impiani.com …

Yesterday’s beach clean was a great success. A number of Watercolours customers kindly volunteered to help us clean the Tuluk Kekek beach, which is often covered in all sorts of rubbish. In around an hour, 42 bags of rubbish were collected. Thanks for all your help everyone!

Yesterday (April fools day), two of our cats, ‘Phantom’ and ‘No-name’ volunteered to act as victims during Mark’s PADI Rescue Diver course.