Sunday, January 3, 2010

Crab Hunting.

During the holiday... I've spent most of my "precious" time on keeping contact with the nature (LOL)... My brothers, cousin and I planned to visit some interesting places at the sea. So, we travel along the Sabah northern coast to see the view of the sea and to find the places we wanted to visit. The route we took is circled at the map below. The shape of Sabah map resembles a cat's head. If you look carefully, the route we had taken looked as if we travel along the cat's right ear. Does it even looks like an ear to you? Finally, we arrived at Torongsoko / Dataran Bengkoka. It was a newly-developed tourism-spot, located approximately 30 minutes drive away from Kota Marudu...





Fishing and hunting crabs are our hobbies. After we arrived at Torongsoko, we took out our crab trap to the jetty. That day, we actually planned to hunt the crabs. We used a crab trap which is locally called as "bintur" to catch the crab. We located the fish inside the trap as the bait. After waiting for quite some time, we had caught the middle-sized crab. Locally they are known as "ketam suri".. One can get it at the local market for RM12 per kilo!! However, we did not even want to think about selling... its just a hobby :))







Pic above is not the original pic, because I forgot to transfer the original pic to my laptop haha. The crab above is not even what we called as "ketam suri"... it was more like a mud crab. Later on, I will upload the real one. Let's see if I have time...

Ducks Farming... Taman Beringin Ongkilan...

During my year-end holiday in 2009, I noticed that the ducks we kept at our backyard had grown so big. Duck! Duck! Duck! The next morning after I just arrived home, I rushed to our backyard and found them quacking loudly for food. Their colour had changed quite a lot... some of the male ducks developed green feathers around their necks... Very few of them had grown beautifully but most of them was brown-coloured and plain...


Since it was our first time keeping a lot of ducks, it was fascinating to see every single movement and reaction of these ducks as a whole group... They did react and respond to each other in quite a natural way which made them so interesting to look at. Sometimes I wasted my time looking at them until I didn't even realized on how much time I've spent there... It was another duck hypnosis! LOL!!


It was raining season on December 2009. We built the duck house at the farm because other than to keep them warm, our backyard was too muddy as it was not suitable for the duck. Now, I'm looking forward to their egg-laying season on the end of January or early February 2010. I just can't wait to see another surprise...