Hike to Pantai Kerachut

So, another day awaits for me like usual? NOT THIS TIME!

It's Saturday, 7:45AM waiting at Penang National Park and it's time to tell about PCC's youth outing to Kerachut Beach.

There (at the entrance) waiting at the Penang National Park for the youth and our Youth Intern, our faithful Wilson who was planning this outing. I arrive only to find no one there. Some came on time, *like youth people always do, the rest came late* Well... never mind. It was always better than not coming, it would have been worst if they did not come.

Playing Takrall

Anyways, after they've arrived; the boys ,like me for instance, went on with playing a few warm ups, which was like playing volleyball, football or some ball; *I don't quite know what it was exactly, but never mind that.* and girls started taking fancy pictures of themselves. While playing, we came across a very long millipede (about 1 1/2 feet long, correct me if I'm wrong). Thank God it wasn't a centipede! The girls would've screamed even more and the boys would have taken it very seriously.

Wilson asked us later to group in our cell groups. We grouped into ours, which I can say, created this blog page for you to know more of us. ;) Soon we're praying for the trip to go well, and we're off.

Chatting something I don't wanna know.

We were now talking our way with the group shown above, and went on our way to Kerachut Beach!

Now I thought the road was going to be concrete like the crazy stone lining above, but I found out no. The road was a jungle road!, And it leads through miles of hiking across the jungle over hills and streams. No doubt it was fun, hehe :-)

Sarah Lookin' nice, though exhausted

*It's steep*

It was hard too. once I've went far behind but managed to catch up with them. But God kept me and that group safe as we journey the rest off our way through.

We finally have reached to a Y-junction. I thought to go to the one going uphill, Oon Feng Insisted on going downhill, which I was guessing it was shorter. So we continued up and down the hills and finally, we have arrived.

"I think it's that way"

One view of Kerachut Beach is this...

Now we joined the rest of the youth in the team. Though the hike was exhausting, the outcome was worth it. Although some of us found out that Wilson and a few of the others had gone there through motorboat. We were a little jealous.

Then we played a few games like Frisbee, Captain Ball, and Volley Ball

Get the ball!

Then, at noon, we were ready to leave. Wilson got all of us to eat at least one packet of nasi kandar. We took a group photo. Soon the boats arrived and I took the slow one. One thing it's good is because I can enjoy the scenery and be not afraid of splashes, while the other boats splash like mad onto the water, decently wetting the passengers on board.

Solomon Kong, one of the people I've ever took a picture of at the boat

Well, we arrived late.But thank God, Because we didn't have a problem at all (except for stopping the boat). We all head out of the boat and we went our separate directions at 2:30PM.

We meet at PCC (which is our church) and told ourselves the effects of it. as well as for some people who have red skin due to sunburn. Yet it was great having such a time like this together to enjoy God's nature.

And that is the end of the wonderful epics of Church Youth Outing!

-Bryan Chin-