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What you need after a ~{purplepost~=1328~;text~=covid test~;target~=covidtest~} is a nice bowl of noodles. And as we'd not been to Siniawan ~{purplepost~=1097~;text~=for over a year~;target~=siniawan~}, that became our noodle-supplying objective yesterday.

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~{nilimage~=142485~;dir~=H~;alt~=prawns~;caption~=Yong Tai's "special noodles". Yummy~}
~{nilimage~=142499~;dir~=H~;alt~=house~;caption~=Ultra-covetable house~}
~{nilimage~=142487~;dir~=V~;alt~=gable~;caption~=Gable and papaya~}
And on the way home, we found a Thai temple...

This is Wat Somdet Sangkharat Sukkhaithuen, Jalan Stephen Yong, Batu Kawa. You can't go in at the moment, but the exterior is very photogenic.

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Today, as is our habit when we hire a car, we drove to the seaside for breakfast. But this time it was a very different bit of seaside.

Selabat Mudflats Nature Reserve has a beach, but a dense stand of mangroves separates it from the sea. The tide was high when we set out walking, and it was fascinating to see the scene changing as the light strengthened and the sea retreated.

There were -- unsurprisingly -- mudskippers aplenty, mostly juveniles. The soundscape merged the soft plash of the waves, the crackle of the mangroves, and the song of the birds (there always seem to be so many birds at the back of Sarawak's beaches).

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~{nilimage~=142542~;dir~=H~;alt~=sunrise~;caption~=The sun gets up~}
~{nilimage~=142544~;dir~=H~;alt~=retreat~;caption~=The tide retreats~}
~{nilimage~=142543~;dir~=H~;alt~=calligraphy~;caption~=Writing on the sand~}
~{nilimage~=142547~;dir~=H~;alt~=torture~;caption~=Would be at home in a gallery anywhere...~}
After this, we headed home to start packing, assembling travel documents, and generally organizing for departure tomorrow. Let's hope a little of the serenity of Selabat stays with us against all odds.