Penang was hot and humid, way too hot and humid and we decided to head to the beach for a day. We jumped on a bus to Penang National Park where we embarked on a 1 hour 20 minute hike through the rainforest to reach the beach. Talk about it being hot and humid!!
The beach was lovely and it was practically deserted, we swam and lounged on the warm sand all day. A few hours in we realized Martin’s t-shirt had vanished. It had been laid out on a fallen palm tree to dry and suddenly it was gone. There were only 3 other tourists on the beach plus some Malaysian school kids on a fieldtrip, but really would anybody want to steal a sweaty, old t-shirt? We of course got the national park beach guard involved in this mysterious disappearance of the 100 baht t-shirt, I searched the beach together with the guard while Martin lay on his beach towel contemplating how he was gonna survive the heavily air-conditioned bus ride back to our hotel without a t-shirt, not to talk about the disapproving stares he no doubt would have collected by the Muslim locals. The guard and I returned from our search empty handed, just as all was starting to look really grim the guard offered up a spare shirt he had in his guard house – what a sweetheart! Even though it was way too big and bright yellow Martin accepted it with open arms :)
Haha! Great story to go along your adventure. YELLOW shirt!!??!!! Huh! 2 weeks ago, the govt cracked down on those who wore yellow...politic issues (more on wiki @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bersih_2.0_rally )...coincidentally this BERSIH body using yellow as their color...so, the govt a bit sensitive on those who wore yellow...Martin, BE VERY AWARE...lol :D
