Last weekend, my family (18 of us) spent a 2 day 1 night outing to Kukup. Only my niece Melissa & nephew Shawn could not make it for this gathering.
Kukup is a century old small fishing village built entirely on stilts on the sea surrounded by water. It is located about 40km southwest of Johor Bahru. For a reasonable $75 per person, it included a 2-way land transport from Singapore to Kukup, a night stay, 2 seafood lunches, 1 high tea, 1 seafood BBQ dinner, 1 breakfast and free usage of the facilities such as DVD karaoke set, majong set, cards, caram, etc.
Our meeting point was at my mother’s house on 29 May at 9am. The driver came punctually but there was some delay as my sister, Irene, had a hard fall. Luckily, it was not that serious. She just needed some cleaning up and changed to a clean clothing. After custom clearance at causeway checkpoint, it took us another 1.5 hr to reach Kukup Town. It was almost 12 pm and we had seafood lunch there.
From here, we needed to walk more than 10 mins to reach the house that we rented. It was almost at the extreme end but we liked it as it meant lesser disruption due to fewer people passing by the house. The house is huge and fully air-conditioned. There are 3 bedrooms, each could accommodate 10 people. There are 3 toilets, a kitchen and a spacious service balcony where it can be used for BBQ, dinner area and fishing there.
After we had settled down, my sisters (Cyndi & Janice) gathered all of us to play some games.
The game of stepping balloons was fun but also the most aggressive and tiring one. All of us were really exhaused and we took a break. High tea was a simple greenbean with sweet potato soup, pandan cake & prawn crackers.
At about 5pm, we took a short boat trip to a nearby fishing farm where they showed us the various fishes that they have. Nothing really interesting here and we left when the next boat came at about 20 mins later.
Thereafter, we went to the town area for a short evening stroll and shopping. By then, the sky started to turn cloudy. Although it did not rain, my wish of shooting nice sunset was not fulfilled. Dinner was BBQ seafood. The Otah & chicken wings were particularly yummy! At about 8.30 pm, what surprised us was that, from our service balcony where we had our dinner, we saw a beautiful golden moon rising from the west. I quickly setup my camera to take some shots.
After dinner, my brother-in-law, Allan enjoyed his favourite hobby - fishing, some played majong, the ladies sang karaoke, the kids tried out fire crackers while the rest watched Ironman II, a pirated DVD I bought from the town at $5 ringget. Most of us slept after mid-night. I set my alarm clock at 6.45 am tomorrow hoping to catch the sunrise.
Luckily, I did not oversleep as the sunrise was quite lovely. Allan woke up early too and he joined me to appreciate the cool and beautiful morning. Breakfast was just nasi lemak, fried beehoon, some kuehs with black coffee. Not fantastic but good enough to fill our stomach.
