A random beach walk all of a sudden

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This was well planned by the company, there's budget needed to be spent, or it's going to become tax. I'm just pure luck to have this opportunity to go out with my new colleagues for a short weekend getaway.

I have absolutely no idea what does it say, perhaps those who can read it can translate for me. For now, let me take you to one of the beach I have known for more than decade but still not able to put my foot on until now.

Port Dickson 4 mile beach is one of the famous camp site as it has shallow water and huge boats does not come near to this shore. Perhaps, it's my luck to share a room with another 2 big guys who snore even louder than me, so I get to wake up early and see some sunrise.

The low tide does form a somewhat interesting view of the west coast of peninsular Malaysia facing the Malacca straight.

The resort hotel we're staying is one of those old school romantic above water resort. Swimming pool operate from 9am until 9pm. They even have children size water slide.

It was 6:45 in the morning, I decided to start the day with my usual routine, go for a walk.

There is no proper pedestrian walk. I mean they do have a very narrow walk path, but I imagine if someone is walking from the opposite direction, one will have to step out of it and hit a car or a bike.

Not far from our resort hotel, I found the secret portal that allow anyone to drive the car in. I forgot to mention, I was transfered to this region for work, so I'm actually quite familiar with these secret places. The only thing I didn't do back then, was actually take time and walk the beach.

The sky was actually still quite dark, somehow my crappy phone camera find it's own way to increase the brightness to these shots, which I'm not complianing of.

Looking back some distance behind me, was the resort hotel we're staying. Those over the water chalet extended to the sea is marvelously amazing(except we we're scared to the crap out of the pee hole the night before due to thunderstorm).

By 7am, it's official sunrise time in our country. It's less dramatic to see the light switch flipping mode here than in Kuala Lumpur. Perhaps here we have less highrise building to block the sunlight.

As I have mentioned, there's so many cars crash into this beach and many of them have a huge family of 10 making a huge army tent, cooking, spitting and probably shitting here, so it's not exactly the kind of beach you'll want to swim in.

As soon as I saw the sunll ray blasting through the trees, and decided to take another shot of the sunlight. Somehow, the damn phone now decided to adjust the brightness lower, and once again I'm not complaining. Perhaps the damn phone knows better than myself in taking pictures.

That was about it for the entire stretch of 4 mile beach. Towards the end of the beach is a small manmade cliff, and ontop of that was a motorhome campaign site. Once again, I have absolutely no urgent to walk there.

Once I turn back, I saw there was the red color ship I've seen the day before when I sneaked out of the company event, and went to the waterfront commercial center some 4km away. If you drive, 4km is nothing. When you jog on a jogging track, 4km is peanut. Have you try beach jogging? And immediately I decided I will not try to beach walk that 4km to that boat.

Instead of the beach, with the amount of sand I have managed to accumulate with my sports shoes, I decided to take a slow walk back to the hotel via the park.

Well, once again you can't expect it to be too clean. It's a weekend, and many of the locals like to spend a night here with their tent, and start to make rubbish here and there.

I kid you not. This part of the beach is the highest glory of all tourism insanity. They gave nigh market here every night, and people will walk over to buy food in plastic bags, consume those food in their tent overnight and throw whatever out for the convenient of it.

Here, this is the exact location of the 4 mile night market. Pasar is market, malam is night. Batu is stone(literally meaning milestone). So this is literally the night market place. Imagine they have this kinda rubbish maker almost every mile apart.

Those vehicle by the road side, are those camper literally chuck their vehicle by the roadside, and proceed to camp at the beach side. Pardon the garbage view.

Last but not least, at least there's enough signboard to remind people how should they behave, but I guess with the Malaysian mentality, these sign are made for the next person to follow. I myself have such an experience where I "got rid" of a plastic bag and got questioned by my own children.

Oh and one last note. If you're sensitive to noise especially sleep time, just standby earplugs or make sure you party hard enough before going back to the chalet hotel. This place is one of the most important route to the international airport.