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It was some months back when we spend a weekend out at the Pulau Ketam (literally means Crab's Island). I remember we complaint about boring weekends doing some routine stuff like going back to home town then sitting there doing nothing for the whole afternoon and waited till evening for a family dinner. It was kind of like repeating every weekend and we were looking for some sparks to bring life to our dull and boring weekend.

So one day when I was doing some net surfing in office while waiting for my program compilation, I came across a news reporting about Pulau Ketam. It caught my attention as the report was about the worsening stray dogs problem on the island. A plan struck my mind immediately and I was thinking that it could be a perfect weekend getaway for us. The jetty to the island was located at Klang, some 20 kms from where we are staying. So there it is, we were heading to the island on that weekend (March maybe?).

There was sign boards in the Klang town leading us to the jetty. But due many road constructions along the main road in the town as part of the plan of the state government to upgrade the roads in Klang, we were caught up in a routine weekend jam at Klang.

We managed to arrive to the jetty before 11am and was able to catch the 11am boat to the island. It was a long ferry which can fill up to 40+ passengers as seen in picture below.


It was a 30 minutes boat ride to the island.

A shop that was providing bicycle rental for use on the island for those who is lazy to walk.


A huge memorial arch built next to a Buddhist temple.




The local Buddhist temple.








Lion statue in front of the temple.


Moving on from the temple ...


School on the island. Nobody was in the school as it was a Sunday afternoon :). I think it was the biggest open ground on the island with a basketball court. Most of the areas in town was built on top of the mud/water with wooden pathway linking all the shops and houses on the island. I am guessing this would be the biggest flat playground for the local kids.










Local was drying the squid on top of a net. It was kind of like our Asian's way to preserve the seafood by soaking it in salt water then put under sun to dry it up. The end product can be save for years and these kind of dried squid is best to grill or deep fried it and made as a bite which goes well with beers!










It was a rather small town that we were only spending an hour walking around. The sun was so hot that day and we were all damped with sweat and felt dehydrating. The houses were built so close to each other and there was no wind at all that day. It was kinda like in a hot oven under the afternoon sun. After lunch, we took the 2:30pm ferry backed to port Klang and that ended our day out at the Crab's Island.