Being a Sea Gypsy Kid
Hi everyone! We're Richard and Jade and we grew up playing on the beach, in the sea and in the jungle because our Mum owns Sea Gypsy. Richard is now 33 running the resort & dive base, having collected a university degree, commercial diving qualifications and now arborist certifications, & at 31 Jade has her own photography business in Dubai and does all the photography and social media for Sea Gypsy. We still love playing on Sibu, which is why Richard has decided to be there and Jade comes back every 2 months or so, as you can see on our social media!
We always loved the boats and went on lots of excursions and snorkeling trips when little & then dive trips as we got older.
We have grown too big for our 3HP boat so we’ve turned it into a cool pirate boat swing which you can find in the kids zone.
Another favourite of ours is 'jumping'. Whether from the Kampung Duku jetty after a walk to the village or jumping into the waterfall on Pulau Tinggi
Once we found an old pit in the jungle. It was full of tortoises that couldn't get out so we had to rescue them, there were so many we had to get a wheelbarrow. One time there was a great big Monitor Lizard in there but we watched him get out by himself. Another brilliant place is the Bat Cave on the walk to the Kampung, so be sure to go on that excursion.
Halloween is one of our favourite days at Sea Gypsy, really creepy with tons of decorations and costumes. We always celebrate it the last Saturday of October. Jade was a zombie bride one year. In 2010 Richard was a crazy pirate. Once Henry, our dog, accidentally got the stuff from inside a snap light on him and looked like spooky ghost dog!
The kid’s activities run by Dan's Nasty are brilliant. We make things like kites and masks plus all sorts of stuff using anything we find on the beach or in the jungle for decoration. There’s treasure hunting, sand sculpting and tee shirt painting too.
We used to have one of those great big plastic climbing things when we were small but it sort of fell apart from use. Our Mum ALWAYS recycles EVERYTHING so she kept the parts that weren't broken. Our carpenters, Parmin & Fendi, along with Richard and his friend Charlie thought Ma had finally flipped when she told us to go and "build a jungle gym, use your imagination". Well it took a little thinking about but CHECK IT OUT! It's kinda got a life of it's own and just keeps growing.
Another day Ma was complaining to me (Richard) about an old pipe sticking out the ground and flippantly said I should stick a pole in it and hang a basket on it..... My gang and I did better than that, we cemented over the top of the pipe and now have a super home made mini basket ball court!
Of course our favourite thing in the whole world is still just playing on the beach.....
We hope to see you at Sea Gypsy sometime soon!