Kapalai Island

The second island we dive at is Kapalai Island, a few kilometers east of Sipadan. It can barely be termed an island anymore. It used to have palm trees on it, but erosion has made it just a sandbar, and only at low tide. A dive resort has bravely built a whole resort of luxury bungalows on stilts above it though, giving it a better claim to 'island' status. You can just about make out each of the individual bungalows in this photo of the 'island', taken from Mabul.

The waters there feature some small wrecks, some big grouper fish, and lots of little critters. I had a crap dive (tired, with headache) while we were there on our first diving day, so I'm unreasonably biased against diving there again.