Present: Fresh water fishes of Penang.

The Sungai Pinang of Balik Pulau is the site that I spend most of my time comparatively. The snake head and cat fish and dragon prawn are hardly can see this day. It were many in the 70 to 80. The installed of more water reservoirs and increased of villagers population had caused the Sharp reduction of river live population. The first video was the Stone fishes 石'kian' in Hakka dialect or 'ikan kera' in Malay and a number of long tail fish or '長 wei yee' or 'pet si' mean ‘白死’in hokkien dialect.




to be continue.

Present: Marine Fishesh Of Penang.

The fresh water fishes were reduced dramatically from the 80an to the 90an and now. The University Malaya had made a studied of the fishes of Peninsular Malaysia. I have the Chance to visit the team in the 1992-1993. I started with a couple of long nozzle fish species first that I captured in video recently in Old Gurney Drive. The public said this couple wanted to follow us as the world may ended in 2012.
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More view of nozzle fish or sharp mount fish as the Chinese called it are available at cbhooi330 You Tube videos.


Second fishes captured in video was a popular table fish species. The local like to fry this 6 in" long mongrove fish species. However I like it to be in curry soup.
One more video of the mangrove back head fishes.

Teluk Bahang to Tanjung Bungar view.

Teluk Bahang Video chip. In 1994 to 2000 it was a mini confrontation of Teluk Bahang Villager againts the Gorverment spoiled troops. Many villagers were replaced by the out siteders. A army personnel told me that they will not hear my instruction. They were good fighters. After the killing the village was developed with a few flats.
Batu Ferringi Video chip. It was developed with a number of class 2 condomenium near to the hill site . It was not the good securities concept that the developer installed 3 stages of lock gate for the resident. This was the important spot also for those who was wanted to hide to the highest ground enter the Penang Hill. Public should practise the tranning in the hiking route before encounter the needed in emergency. The Butu Ferringi sea shore beach is a attractive location for water activities . Anyway it did have some dangerous entities hiding within such as high wave and deepth water . The Batu Ferringi Beach is located at the North of Penang Island . The following is the video clip I captured in 2012 Ausgust 5 or 4 at the beach at 2 pm . I have a little problem in the download in this blog . Therefore I link it to the Youtube that I uploaded as following - Batu Ferringi Beach Of Panang Island .