| The matriarch of our family is "Nana" aka Sylvia Florence Hofstedt born 16th October 1919. Linda's mother has been living in Johor Bahru with the Wills family since 2006 and is very much a part of the Sea Gypsy Gang so Pulau Sibu was the obvious venue for 'the party'. One small problem, Nana doesn't like the boat, step up the Lloyd family and Lloyd Helicopters. Chris Lloyd was at school with Daniel Wills and so indirectly Nana's favourite son in law managed to give her a lovely birthday pressie via the extremely generous Lloyd family. |
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Friends and family started arriving from all over, including our Satay Safari nut, Uncle Dave, who of course flew in for the UK for just the weekend! |
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| Easter 09 brought lots of children of all ages, Easter Orienteering, Easter Hunts and of course loadsachocolate! | ||||
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| This "cute" Easter Bunny lays the trail for the girls. | X always marks the spot... | ...to dig up clues, | ||
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| which, when fathomed, | invariably lead through the jungle | in search of another Bunny | ||
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| that hands out the goodies! | Lots of cute bunnies | set off at such a pace | ||
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| Earth Hour at Sea Gypsy | |
| Earth hour coincided with out Saturday night BBQ and made for a romantic evening: | |
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The Climb. by Richard & Jade |
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| Richard & Jade Wills both came to Sibu Island at the age of 6 weeks. They grew up bare foot running through the jungle, along the beach and across the coral. They frequently gave their mother near heart attacks with their antics as I'd hear a small voice and realise they were 20 feet above me somewhere! |
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They are still both completely insane in their mother's eyes but I have learned to simply let them get on with it. No surprise then when I found these photos on my camera after the Easter school hols (readers of these pages will realise they are both now at boarding school in Perth, WA.). Obviously a climbing expedition with a camera in tow and how lucky am I because what an amazing photo of our beach -:) |
| And to prove they haven't developed city feet, despite their sojourn in the real world, we have proof that climbing coral in bare feet is still no problem. Please do not try this at home, to us lesser mortals it hurts like heck! |
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Sea Gypsy (outdoor) Island Office |
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If you call
our reservations or island phone number you will often get an answer
machine that finishes "please leave a message, your call is
important to us." Well I'd just like to show you to what
lengths we are prepared to go to in order to answer your enquiries
and make those bookings for you!
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Every year the North East Monsoon dumps tons of rubbish not only on
our beach but on the beaches of all the uninhabited islands around
us that we love to use for snorkeling trips. So every year, as soon
as the wind changes, the big clean up starts. Snorkeling trips in February can make for an exciting ride! |
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Some times our lovely guests decide
to give us a hand to help the environment and we couldn't be
happier.
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Despite my absence Halloween was tremendous fun as always (simply confirming my suspicion that I am completely superfluous to requirements despite my conviction I'm irreplaceable!). There was Jack-o-lantern making, Dressing Up, Decorations, Halloween Games & LOTS of yummy Halloween goodies including our (in)famous Bat Dropping Cookies. | ||
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Bat cups, a must for collecting Halloween goodies |
Fantastic Jack O Lanterns |
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| Yummy, Bat Dropping Cookies | Blood, blood and then some more blood! | ||
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| Saving the Dugong (if you don't know what a Dugong is click here) Top of Page | ||||||
| Mid April a group of scientists & volunteers from the University of Malaysia, sponsored by Titan Chemicals came to Pulau Sibu to survey and catalogue the sea grass. This is part of a project that is also tracking and tagging the Dugong population in the area. We were thrilled to be able to host the group of enthusiastic ecologists. They did sight a female Dugong with pup on day three and then again on day four, but no photos unfortunately. Diving all day & cataloguing half the night these people are to be congratulated for their dedication. Meanwhile Dan's Nasty Frogmen have turned into keen Dugong spotters! | ||||||
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| ....a great deal of tank filling... | ....yummy sea grass.... | ....& our Kid's Club laboratory! | ||||
Linda's World Trip |
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| In 2006, for the first time in 14 years, I went away during the season and spent six weeks on a trip round the world. I kept a blog for Richard & Jade which you're welcome to peruse should you feel so inclined www.lindawills.blogspot.com . The eagle eyed amongst you will notice our sate safari nutter cooks a mean joint of beef! You will also become well aware that I'm completely obsessed with food!! | |
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The Fabulous Magnets I know this is old now but I can't bear to take it off, we had such fun! |
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The Dave Gunner Sate Safari #3 - COMPLETED |
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| Would you believe there are some people on this earth crazy enough to fly half way around the world for some Sate - TWICE??? Well at least one exists. His name is Dave Gunner and he lives in the UK. Dave does work for Virgin Airlines which makes the cost of a return ticket to Malaysia a little easier on the pocket but nonetheless I personally think he's insane. Last time he brought our old friend (and the chap that introduced us) Mick McGinn with him. The eagle eyed amongst you that have read every word of this web site (??!) will know that Mr. McGinn is also one of the original founders of Dan's Nasty Frogmen . Mr. Gunner completed Sate Safari #3 July 2009 (updated photos to follow) - the man is definitely insane and completely obsessed with our peanut sauce!! | |
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Contact Us at Sea Gypsy Village Resort & Dive Base - Pulau Sibu,
Malaysia.
