Fireflies watching...

Last Saturday, 5 families from my church gathered for a little trip to the mainland. There are about 20 of us and we droved in 3 cars to the mainland and straight to a small town called Nibong Tebal. Our purpose is to see fireflies…. The adults were as excited as the children… We had a little jam once reached the bottleneck of Penang bridge but after that smooth sailing until we reach our destination. The journey took us around an hour. We took dinner at one of the restaurants, walked a short distance to the nearby jetty. The person in-charge welcomed us and in less than 10 minutes, our boats had arrived.

Firstly we put on our safety jackets and boarded the boat. We are in the first boat and off we sailed to the open river… The night was real dark and it was a cold windy night, luckily we were all in our long sleeves and jeans, the kids enjoyed the ride. Five minutes into the ride, we reach the first “Christmas tree” and experienced our first encounter with the fireflies…. Such marvelous insects created by God, as we sailed further we saw a whole lot more of “Christmas trees” lighted up by these fireflies…. It was a great experience… Tried to take some pictures but with my camera, the result is total darkness… ha ha… For those who have yet seen these fireflies’ colonies you can plan a trip there. You can call Mr. Heng, the boat operator at (6)012-4595146, he charged RM8 for adult and RM4 for child, the trip took about an hour. In addition you can booked for octopus watching cum fireflies watching but I heard the trip will take one full day in which I don’t think it’s suitable for children our age…. And yeah all the children were quite well behave as I told them I’m not sure if there are crocodiles in the river so they ought to sit tight and still… ha ha so bad of me hor……

We did not go for this boat operator, anyway you may try it also...


The boats of another operator but ours one looks the same...


The children... if you realized all girls, 9 of them!!!