Kayaking at Sepang

 

Finally! A chance to test out the kayak

We decided to go kayaking at Sepang since it is possible the closest natural body of water to us. We already made  it through the buying a kayak phase, so, its only natural we find a place to go test the kayak out. There is Sepang, Port Dickson and possibly Tanjung Sepat to try out the new 'used' kayak...all within a day's journey. 

Ai Vee's Grovey floating house at Sepang rivr

Grovey Floating House...Sungai Sepang

My friend Ai Vee whom I met many many years ago while doing our nature guiding course has established herself a nice little floating house (boat house) in Sungai Sepang. Ai Vee has been relentless promoting her Grovey floating house. She runs mangrove kayaking tours from Grovey and it has been gaining momentum. She keeps her social media updated with kayaking groups and also the occasional overnighters. On top of that, my friend JC has also ben telling me about Grovey floating house. He has been there many many times and I was sold when we chatted about it during our camping trip to Lata Hammer. I reached out to Ai Vee on the possibility of launching our kayak there and she says no problem at all. At the time we did launch our kayak, Ai Vee was not around at Grovey, so we went on our own and explored the river. 

Kayaking at Sepang

Meun was totally immersed in the surrounding

Kayaking on the Sepang river was much better than I expected. We launched our kayak fast at the peak of the high tide and headed up stream. Depending on how long we would be out on the water, the going out tide (current) may help us back to where we started. While Meun was happily paddling and taking in the scenery, I was busy looking out for good spots to drop crab pods. Put the words kayaking and mangrove together and words like fishing or crabbing would surface naturally. As we paddled, we dropped a few crab pods...just for the fun of it. 

My crab pods from the days in Sungai Petani

The mangroves here are not as dense as the ones in Langkawi back when we both were 'outdoor educators' there. Some parts of the mangrove here in Sepang thins out to reveal fish or prawn farms with massive pump pipes either sucking or spewing water into the river. Then there are some areas that we could slither in with the kayak and explore further. We say a lot of macaques and some herons. The macaques are really the noisy bunch and some of them looked like they are ready to jump onto us from the trees. Friend or foe? I don't want to know. 

We paddled...probably a good two hours in total on Sungai Sepang. I caught nothing with the crab pods but together, this kayak trip brought back a lot of good memories. When we sold both our single kayaks,  we never thought we would end up with a double seating kayak now. But strangely, we find the twin kayak much more fun as we can chat, help each other and do more picture or video taking while the other paddled the kayak. A much more fun way to enjoy kayak actually. 

We definitely enjoyed kayaking at Sepang and this 'renewed' enthusiasm has rejuvenated our desire to do more. So, next, if all goes well, we will be heading into the heart of Peninsula, to a place where we have always loved and enjoyed going to. A place that has always been special to both of us for a very long time.