This place was heaven on earth.

A remote resort with 5 simple but comfortable huts.

A small beach restaurant run by chefs from the UK serving great local and western food.

10 days watching the sea, listening to the sound of the waves and sorting my project ideas.

Slowly, deeply resourcing.

Day trip to Oslob for swimming with whale sharks.

Beautiful, powerful and peaceful.

A few times, they swam towards me with their mouse wide open.

A humbling and unforgettable experience.

I learned that hermit crabs have house exchange parties.

These are fascinating.

It turns out the shell of a hermit crab is not part of their body. It is just an empty shell they use. So, every once in a while, they need a bigger one.

When a big shell becomes available, hermit crabs gather around it and have an exchange party.

First, the biggest crab leaves his shell to grab the new one.

Then, in turn of size, each crab leaves his shell to move in the newly vacated one.

They had these every night outside of my hutt. Amazing.

One afternoon, I was alone on a small beach next to the hotel.

I noticed that fish leave when you arrive, but if you wait long enough without moving, they come back.

So I sit in the water, in an area full of fish close to the corals and algues, and waited.

After 10 minutes, the fishes started coming back, minding their own business like I wasn't there.

Having fish actually come towards me, instead of swim away, made me feel like I was part of nature.

Then, all of a sudden, something moved under my legs.

Apparently this fish thought I was a good hiding place. But it was not a regular fish. It was long. Either an eel, a morey eel or a snake, and it was hiding under my legs.

There was a poisonous snake - a sea krait - I had seen in the water multiple times that week, so I was wondering if it was him.

I didn't see a safe way out of this.

After a few minutes wondering what to do, I figured he was not going away, and the longer I waited, the longer I risked something happening. So I just stood up.

The fish swam away in a hurry and found refuge in a rock nearby.

From his new hide out, I saw his eyes looking at me with curiosity.

It was a morey eel !