More of Pasir Kumpal.



That calm water was Dungun River before the flood (tag).

To me, Pasir Kumpal is an amazing geographical feature. The place is actually a sandy bank by the Dungun River, a little over ten miles inland. It's huge with more than a kilometer in length, about maybe 50 meters in width on average. Never had I ever imagined such place exist at such size. It's like a big beach in the middle of a jungle!

Don't trust me? Well, take a look at these pictures.



This is at one end, roughly looking east.



At the same spot, looking north.



West. Notice the distance between vegetation (left) and water edge (right).



At the other end, looking northeast.

Due to the importance of the place to the survival of river terrapins - Batagur baska, an endangered species; tuntung in Malay - it's been gazetted as a conservation site by the state of Terengganu. This place might as well be the largest nesting site for this species in the world given that Malaysia is "last stronghold of the terrapins", "Dungun River probably represents the largest remaining wild population in Malaysia" and that Pasir Kumpal is most likely the largest of all sandy banks of Dungun River.

The only drawbacks about this place are; one, no or little reception - believe it or not, only Celcom works there no matter its signal strength; two, some sort of parasites that eat your blood, known as tuau tungau in Malay; three, leeches. An army of leeches. Four; a little hard to get to. Much harder to get out in my case.

p/s - I knew one of these days Ann Coulter would get into trouble. Right now, her fellow conservatives are shying away from her due to Coulter's recent racist remark. Suddenly, association with her is a sin. LOL! She may have committed fraud too! Hahaha. Republicans have too many problems. Cheney, DeLay, Abramoff. The list is endless.

pp/s - Been going on for a few days now but it will never get old.

Stewart was on fire tonight:

"Whittington was mistaken for a bird."

"Harry Whittington, seasoned to an inch of his life."

"Don't let your kids go hunting with the Vice President. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land or-energy regulations they're trying to get lifted. He'll shoot them in the face."

Rob Corddry joined in.

Corddry : "Jon, tonight the Vice President is standing by his decision to shoot Harry Whittington. Now according to the best intelligence available, there were quail hidden in the brush. Everyone believed at the time-there-were-quail in the brush. And while the quail turned out to be the 78 year old man. Even knowing that today, Mr. Cheney insists-he still would have shot Mr. Whittington in the face.

Jon rocks! (via)