29th April - Hole in the Wall (Langkawi circumnavigation)

Tuesday 29^th April

Back in the marina.  Ah, say the boys,  Rebak!  as they race towards the pool on the patiently waiting bikes.

We did have a wonderful time on our circumnavigation of Langkawi.  Yesterday we hired a motorboat plus driver and went right through the backwaters of the Hole in the Wall, through the mangroves.  Spectacular and fabulous!  ($60 for all six of us for about two hours…)

I had been very much hoping that the boys would see at least one or two monkeys during their stay on Langkawi… They have now seen hundreds!  Mostly macaques, but also many of the lovely fluffy back ones (dusky leaf monkeys) swinging high in the branches above us.

The babies are red!

Our speedboat trip was full of Attenborough moments.  Monkeys swam out to the boat, or leapt on board from nearby mangroves.

They swarmed around us, looking for treats – yes of course our driver had a small bag of dry food for them…they don’t love people that much all of their own accord…

It was wonderful, going through the mangroves, speedily and efficiently.  Had we tried to go through these waterways in the dinghy…well Pete says we would have had to take a tent and string it up high in the branches…and maybe it would have taken us a week…

Today we left our lovely anchorage near the Andaman resort and went to Telaga Harbour, to get a taxi to the Seven Wells Waterfall.  Nicky hadn’t been and the boys were desperately keen to go back and wrestle on the waterslide between the pools.

Pete went swimming, VERY happy in the cool fresh water.

I spent the whole time as cold and wet as possible.

Hamish found, and photographed, a glorious frog.

We had a very late lunch at Telaga (3pm…) at The Best Restaurant – Maharaja’s.  The boys were totally blissed out with their plates piled high with butter chicken, aloo gobi, dhal, garlic naan… Ahh food, such a reliable pleasure…

And now we are back here in Rebak, with electricity (FANS!!) and a shop which sells mosquito coils…we had nearly run out.

competition!

Life is good!