This island is pretty! Clean water, beautiful scenery, blue sky, etc. but everything has its pros and cons. I hate that we need to take 2 hours of boat just to reach the island using tiny boat with no shelter under hot sun, it's suffering and worst if you have sea sick, very dizzy with the big wave and boat shaking all the time. I think I got tanned (for better description: skin got darker) so much even by applying sunblock.
Photo so beautiful I have so much to share. Will later talk more about suggestion and recommendation. A lot to improve to make it a tourist spot. As this island have very less tourist, it's more of those local peoples, heard that they said there's another more famous island in this province but this island is worth visiting for snorkelling.
There're so many animals there such as chicken, duck, goat and etc. which are free to walk everywhere. Young kids are all around too, they are free to run and play around the village, independent kid that are brave to try.
Campfire at night, not the real ones though. We later grill sausage and fresh fish we bought from the village that came back from the sea. The fish is delicious even without any sauce. They play guitar, sing song and we chat till night. The sky is beautiful, you can see rising red moon from bottom to bright white on top the sky and also sky full of stars. So windy at the seashore but definitely not in the villa.
Oh ya, there's no phone signal on the island, it's like isle without people. But I guess this is the signal stuff for each home television or radio station? Not really sure about these but most of the big houses have these.
The activity of village here is more of fishing life. They fish in the evening and midnight while in the morning they are fixing their net and boat. Very hardworking indeed. Oh, did I mentioned that they are super friendly people. I were walking around this island alone in the morning and were greeted by so many people. This woman below is of one that speaks to me :) The island is big, I been walking for an hour and I couldn't manage to finish walking it.
This is a beautiful island with very less tourist or maybe no tourist at all but only people from Mempawah (60 - 90mins journey) for one-day camping? I and my team come up with a few suggestion and recommendation to boost up the economy here, the potential to make it a tourist place is high.
1. Wind turbine can be built here to generate some electricity. As this island, the whole island doesn't have electricity until 6pm. The electricity here is not only limited to the light but all electric devices which are actually tough nowadays as the world is getting more advance. For example, rice cooker, phone charging, computer usage, etc.
2. Seafood! and Coconut! The foods selling at the stores (they called it warung) are all selling instant noodles, the fried ones or the steam ones. Or drinks which are in the powder form where you dilute it in the water. They can actually highlight seafood and coconut here making it the speciality. It's weird when you see coconut tree here but no one is selling coconut. It's even weird when their incomes are coming from fishing but they don't sell seafood here. The fish here is so so fresh, and I believe that it's going to be delicious as for other seafood too. They can earn a buck!
3. Ship schedule and safety. They should come out with a ship schedule and people get to planned their trip there, maybe online or social media which have a greater influence nowadays. And to provide life jacket act as a safety precaution. Touch wood what if the boat sink or capsize by the big wave?
4. More water activity! Not only snorkelling but maybe diving or banana boat. Diving for a greater view to see a clearer version of those beautiful corals with different colour and shape not to forget the fish that is swimming in the sea (some of them found Nemo). As for banana boat, it's teenagers best activity now!
5. Lastly local souvenir! This is what the tourist finding every time they visit a new place. Even I am finding for souvenir actually either in food form, keychain or postcard. In my opinion, postcard might be a better choice as there's no expired date for paper products and the view here is so beautiful, you can simply snap photos here and nothing turn out ugly (I had difficulty on choosing photos for this article). And sending postcard is a trend now, why not?
Ah, that's the little boat we sat for 2 hours journey to this island, the experience wasn't good, maybe some improvement on that too? But as the saying says nothing beautiful comes easy.
Bye Lemukutan Island!
I experienced lots of my first here, snorkelling, swimming in the ocean watching coral without life jacket (with coach for the first time), campfire with barbeque, chat under dark sky at the seashore, wooden plain room, drinking fresh coconut from coconut tree (they can climb like a monkey), walking alone in a village, etc.
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