101 Challenges:

Location: Langkawi or Thereabouts - Malaysia 

Up early we catch yet another boat to some island we now forget the name of. It is a national marina and has beautiful coral with an array of fishes and even sharks. Here we were to complete our By Crumbs Challenge which was given to us by Patrick O’Brien. This should have been simple, all we had to do was create a bread suit and then jump in the sea.

Our attempts at making a bread suit consisted of needle and thread, staples and then masking tape. All of which didn’t really work but we had done our best. A lot of people had gathered to watch us as we moved towards the ocean and one of the employees stopped us to warn us of sharks. That was nice of him.

Splash! We were in and the fish were at us in no time. There were thousands of them and they showed no fear. They nibbled at every orifice with some even biting our fingers, luckily they did not bite too hard or had no teeth because it wasn’t too sore but enough to freak us two out. They went for our bodies in huge numbers and they thrashed and bashed against our faces.

We screamed and wriggled and splashed about more than all the actors in Jaws put together and then we saw it. SHARK! 5 foot away from us there it was, the menace of the deep. It looked at us, we looked at it. We tried to stare it down for what must have been like oh a full 1.234 seconds before fleeing. It was massive and looked evil and swam after us trying to grab at our flippers and just as we pulled ourselves out of the water it took one huge bite out of Lee’s leg and he required 234 stitches.

Okay so the above is just like any other fishing story, a little elaborated perhaps. There was a shark we did flee, it didn’t bite and if truth be told it was only a couple of feet long. But would you have stayed in the water wearing a bread suit as it swam below you?

The challenge was great though and despite our crap suits the fish did swarm and go for us so it has to get the thumbs up. It was scary, it was funny, it was stupid, it was perfect.

On this day Lindsay also fell in love, 1.2.3 ah. He befriended a girl who worked on the tour to the marine park and they could not be pulled apart. She was there with her niece and to look at them all together it was like the perfect little pre-made family. She was a lovely wee lass and even Lee liked her.

Lindsay asked Lee's advice as to whether he should propose there and then. Lee told him not be stupid and pointed out that Lindsay has fallen in love nearly every day since being in South East Asia, each time with a different local girl. In fact he has on several occasions fallen in love more than once on the same day such is his attractions to the exotic locals.

Lindsay was adamant this was the one though but Lee reminded him of his search for his Japanese Rachael and he was brought back to his senses. Ah Rachael, the perfect woman whom he did not yet know but his heart was sure he would find. With this in mind he dropped his ready made family and plugged in his MP3 player.