Percutian Singkat di The Kasturi, Cherating Pahang

Short holiday at The Kasturi Resort, Cherating, Pahang
Actually, this resort is situated on Chendor Beach, north of Cherating and south of  Cukai /Kemaman.

We book a 3 Bedroom Forest Family Villa - Kenanga no 16

A-frame structures of traditional Malay architecture

Buggy rides from  the car park to the Kanchapuri Main Building

Common room on the ground floor

  The image above is from The Kasturi website

One of the rooms on the first floor

Ground floor room

The Kanchapuri Main Building, a view from a beach

Let's swim at this Swimming Pool

Landscape Photography at The Kasturi, Chendor, Pahang. The Blue Lagoon

Late evening with an overcast sky, this gives even light and is suitable for portrait shots.
Exif: 1/160| ISO 200 | f/8 | 24mm | 6:46PM

Leading lines in Landscape photography, examples above, waves and horizon, and footprints on the pictures below.

That footprint is strange, how could that man in a blue shirt walk backward? ha ha! :)

Yes, these footprints look like normal humans walking forward.

Silky waves
Exif:  30s | ISO 200 | f/22| 17mm |  6:46am

Strolling along the Chendor Beach.
Exif: 1/250 | ISO 200 | f/8 | 24mm | 6:53PM

Waiting for the perfect wave.
Exif: 1/250s | ISO200 | f/8 | 24mm | 6:52PM

Ops.. kaki kena air!
Exif:  1/200s | ISO 200 | f/8 | 24mm | 6:58PM

Exif: 1/20s | ISO3200 | f/11 | 17mm | 6:42AM
I woke up early and by 6:30AM already at the beach with my camera and tripod ready.
The sun is supposed to rise at 7:00AM, we wait and wait, but that low cloud blocks it.
So, we just contended with the sunrise landscape without the sun.

Silky waves after 13 seconds of exposure.  I used a tripod and a remote shutter release. I did bring a couple of natural density filters, but no time to test them.
Exif:  13s | ISO200 |  f/22 | 17mm | 6:45am

Funneled water around or between rocks.
Exif: 1/2s | ISO 200 | f/22 | 23mm | 7:00 AM

To create white water trails on the sand,  shoot when the water recedes (ombak menurun dari pantai).
Exif: 2s | ISO200 | f/22 | 17mm | 6:58 AM

Sunset and reflection give a very relaxed and peaceful feeling

Brother and sister in the Welcome Pavilion Lounge area

Night walk on an elevated walkway through the forest.

Pool side breakfast at the Kenyalang Restaurant

After breakfast I walk around the beach with my 400mm f/5.6, looking for birds
White-bellied Sea Eagle was shot with a wide angle lens in the evening after check-in. 

Butt shot of Collared Kingfisher- never mind as it is my Lifer.

Red-eyed Bulbul with insect

Monkey-eating food store in their bulging cheek pouches

Female Common Mormon (Papilio polytes). on Mexican Petunia flowers

Striped Albatross  Butterfly on yellow flowers of  Pokok Selaput Tunggul/ Pokok Kapal Terbang

Jungle Ixora aka Malayan Ixora. Look at the broad leaves compared to common garden Ixora (Chinese Ixora)

A Carpenter Bee on the purple beach Morning Glory Purple flower (Ipomea pes-caprae), beach creeper.

 Beach morning glory or goat's foot, covering the Chendor beach north (above) and south (below).

White flower, Cane Reed, Spiral Flag, or White Costus (Costus speciosus)

Fisherman's Boat at a Lagoon at Tanjung Geliga, Cukai Kemaman

Pandan Laut, Screw-Pine (Pandanus odorifer) at the north beach of The Kasturi Resort.