4th and 5th March - Koh Muk - Koh Tarutao - Telaga (Langkawi)

Tuesday 4^th March

Our lasting memory of Koh Muk will be the very delicious dinner* we had at the very new Had Farang resort, in the middle of the bush, up the hill from the beach.  Fabulous massaman curry…as good at the one at Paradise Beach.

tsunami warning tower

and of this little boy in the bright orange t-shirt, keeping up with the BigBoys every evening on the beach.

Here he is , closer...

We left early in the morning and found a mooring near a beach on Koh Tarutao, which is a very big, wild island, with not much habitation and lots of old-growth forest.

On the way we took turns on the beanbag

and saw some very interesting rocky islets.

Not far from Langkawi now.  We have very nearly run out of fresh water, let alone potatoes, onions, cheese, beer… We will be very happy to see Kuah!

Monkeys!  Wild pigs!  Cats!

This is great!

Wednesday 5th February

A Mystery Of The Sea!!

Where are Pete’s thongs??  These are very dear to his heart.  He broke one of them – Pair No #1 – when we were in the Northern Territory.  For a while he limped along on one, with a very cheap and nasty Australian flag rubber thong on his other foot.  And then, after an extensive and exhausting search in Darwin, we found his favoured thongs and bought them, very happily.  Unfortunately we (I mean HE) only bought one pair… I, on the other hand, have four pairs of my beloved Fitflops, and rather anxiously feel this is NOT enough.

Last night we tied up to a dilapidated jetty to go exploring.  As we stepped out, Pete said, Where are my shoes?  I hadn’t seen them in the dinghy at all and had assumed he had left them on 2XS.  No cause for panic.  Yet… But now it is broad daylight and his thongs are still not to be found.  I rather think we will be doing some intensive/exhausting searching in sports shops for a replacement pair when we get to Singapore… (And maybe I will secretly buy a spare pair to hide away for emergencies…)

And now we are back…in Langkawi!

Wee hee!

Home!!  (almost…)

* We have had some very disappointing meals.  I read an article in Lonely Planet about “backpacker food,” ie Thai food which is mass produced, packaged, diluted, to appeal to…backpackers.  I think we have had quite a lot of this, unfortunately.  Nothing to do with price – meals are generally very cheap, whether tasty…or not…