Pantai Keracut

This guide to Pantai Keracut on Penang Island covers a beach reachable only by a grueling jungle trail or an expensive boat, kept wild enough that sea turtles still nest on its sand at night. It follows the state fisheries rangers who guard the nests and, on the walk in, a meromictic lake where fresh rainwater sits atop seawater in two layers that never mix, one of only a handful in Asia. Worth pausing on the wooden bridge over that lake before continuing on to the sand.