Ironically, the tropical city of Kota Kinabula which is a fairly popular tourist destination doesn’t have a single beach. What it does have are several outlying islands. For a few ringgits you can catch a ride on a boat that will take you to the island of your choice -which is exactly what we did on our first Sunday in Borneo. The island and the beach were beautiful. The island had just the right amount of amenities without being overdeveloped.
We had been on the beach for a couple of hours and had just finished doing some snorkeling in the shallow waters near the beach when we saw something moving over by the picnic tables. It moved again. Oh my goodness, it looks like a small dinosaur! It wasn’t of course; it was actually a good sized monitor lizard. Two of them to be precise. I had seen pictures of monitor lizards before, but I was not prepared to encounter one face to face.
Once we realized they were more interested in eating picnic scraps more than in eating us, we warmed up to them. We didn’t exactly pet them, but we did get close enough to get ourselves in a couple of picture with them.
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