Swee Ching Photography

I can't recall when was the last time I visited Pulau Ketam (Crab Island). I guess it could be about 15 years ago. So it was my curiosity of how much would Pulau Ketam had changed that I agreed to Jeff's invitation to go for this 1/2 day trip (these 1/2 day trips is turning into a de-facto standard trip length for our impromptu photo trips). With reference to www.pulauketam.com, Pulau Ketam used to be an inhabited island full of mangrove swamp, where fishermen travelled back and forth from the mainland to catch crabs, prawns and fishes. Eventually they started to build houses on stilts and slowly the population grows to today's 6-7 thousand. To reach the island, we took a 40-minute speed boat ride from Port Klang (KTM Komuter Pelabuhan Klang station). These fishing boats are located at the river near the main jetty. I can see plenty of mud crabs mud skippers at the river banks. Seems to me the residents of Pulau Ketam goes around with bicycle or motorized bicycle. I didn...

"Easy to climb and nice scenery". That's what I was told by my colleague. This time, Jeff took the initiative to organize this trip. To catch the sunrise, we have to leave home from Petaling Jaya at 4:30am (yawn...) After driving and getting lost with Nokia GPS (map not so updated), we finally reached Broga just before 6am. But we don't know where's the exact location to hike the hill. Following the road, we reached a small (really small) town and luckily, the local kopitiam shop has already started business, so we asked for direction from the locals. By the time we reach the starting point and started hiking, it's already about 6:30am. No fun lugging around heavy tripod and camera bag and racing against time to reach the top of the hill. Took us about 30-45 minutes to reach a location high enough to take some descent photos. Never miss a group photo! Note: Lots of mosquitoes in the morning. So wear longs exercise pants and use repellents.