After being floored rather by the heat yesterday we thought we'd get up early to beat it and make the most of the day. I wanted to try and find a beach that the guidebook had said was really good. It became a bit of a wild goose chase really involving a 40minute walk through some rather bitey forest, we did find a beach in the end, not sure it was the right one though! I did also see a huge monitor lizard on the way which I startled and it ran into the sea which was cool.
We'd only had watermelon for breakfast so lunch of sticky rice and chicken on beach back at base was particularly welcome.
In the afternoon we hired a longtail boat and a driver and went to explore Koh Hong, one of the karst- islands off the coast, they'd been rather reluctant to take us as it was low tide, Ko Hong has a huge lagoon in it carved by the sea and I think usually boats go inside it, our boat couldn't because it was low tide but we were able to swim then walk in, carefully avoiding sea urchins. It was an incredible place, little brightly coloured crabs raced around on the sand, huge limestone walls echoed and provided a eery sense of isolation, we were the only people there and able to see Kingfishers feeding and eagles overhead.
For dinner we went to a great international restaurant, I escaped from Thai food and ironically Gemma had the hottest dish she'd had so far rather by accident!
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