Over the Merdeka holidays, I went fishing with some friends off the Pahang and Johor coast. We started off from the Kuala Rompin jetties on a lovely morning with mist shrouding the mangrove and hovering over the river. It was a beautiful, peaceful sight.
Then the sun started getting hotter but the mist remained… and remained, acting in a most un-misty way. When we sailed away from the river mouth we could still see this “mist” all around us. It wasn’t mist. It was the haze, right there on the east coast hundreds of kilometres from the nearest Indonesian territories, yet enough of it was visible even in Pulau Tioman.
Over the last few months, I've been saying “I've never seen haze this bad, only to update it again multiple times on subsequent days. The haze last week was especially bad, but I’m sure as records go this too will be broken soon.
