Monday 24th February
Another beautiful
Hat Paradise sunset…
We are leaving
today, to go to…yet another beautiful Thai island…
The boat behind us
in Yacht Haven was a splendid big catamaran, gleaming away in top condition,
with two young Australian blokes aboard keeping it spick and span.
Pete talked to
them and found that they live aboard, in the marina, and await instruction from
the owner, who lives in Singapore. About
three times year (Yes THREE times a year!) they get a call to get the boat
ready to take it out for a family jaunt around the islands of
Thailand. The rest of the time…they
polish and clean and pass the time as best they can…
Tuesday 25th February
We didn’t go very
far…just around a few corners to a beautiful little island, uninhabited, Koh
Roi. We watched sea eagles soaring in
the thermals
I spent a lot of
time in the water, swimming reasonably energetically from one side of the
little bay to the other. It is
impossible to exert oneself very much, however, even in the water, because the
water is…almost as warm as a bath. There
are lots of caves along the waterline and I very much enjoyed swimming in and
out of them. An almost perfect
activity…the only issue was that the water, warm and balmy, is also very soupy
and impenetrable and I had to swim very slowly along the rocks because any
minute now there was going to be a sharp, pointy INVISIBLE outcrop of rocks,
and shells, all designed to remove skin from my limbs.
We are now on our
way…
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| 2XS from inside cave |
We have stopped at
a beautiful resort area on Koh YaoYai.
The resort (Santhiya, only twelve months old,) was…not for the likes of us… It has a gigantic waterfall
cascading into an equally enormous swimming pool and much magnificence. They wanted 600 baht from each of us before
we could even order a fruit juice… So we are eating at a small beach café with
hard wooden chairs where they are happy to see us WITHOUT 600 ($24) baht each
extra… And then we will move along to another beach, where possibly there won’t
be internet so…I am rushing!
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| Looking from under our trusty tarp |
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