A six a.m. alarm call hasn't happened since India, so we struggled out of bed to be able to meet our 7 a.m pick up to Fisherman's Wharf to meet our speed boat to the islands, along with us were 50 or so chronic smokers who were cramming in the last pre boat Marlboro along with the weak coffee and bagged croissants supplied.
An hour later and me 3" shorter after our seat decision proved to be the wrong one ( who sits in the bow, who?) we arrived at our snorkel site whereupon 30 people jumped in an scared away the fish, so Ais and I took artistic shots.
After snorkelling it was another 20 minutes to our kayak venue where we navigated the rocky obelisks that form the archipelago. We landed on a beautiful sandy beach and paired up into our kayak teams and paddled around the islands and into caves and generally in circles as Ais was steering.
Lunch was served on the beach, green curry, rice, spring rolls and fresh fruit after which we had some siesta time underneath the palm trees or the gay folk played on the tree swings....
Our next destination was a hollow island ( they call it James Bond island), it's basically an old crater full of water and score one point for Mother Nature as the staircase up was 300 plus steep ass steps which Ais and I strided up passing our weezing compadres on the way and then on the way back down as they still struggled up.
By this tine it was past three and due to our position on the boat ( the bouncy end with no sun cover) we were both a little basted as we set off back to Samui.
As we approached the dock it became ominously dark and foreboding, Fisherman's Wharf had disappeared in a mist of White squall, our captain seeing that we were all dry, stopped the engines and waited it out in the bay... Did he hell, he drove at it full throttle so those heavy Tropical raindrops felt like 6" nails, needless to say we arrived looking like a cat that had just done a wash cycle ( without the smell of fresh meadow)
Our final option was one that sounded more exciting that it turned out to be, they were presented as follows:
ATV course
Elephant ride
Fish spa
What they actually were was:
Sit on lawnmowers on a 100m loop
I still don't do elephants
6 well fed fish not interested in feet
So that was a bit of a downer, and it was raining, so we called time of death and headed back.
We did the Rockpool thing again tonite with much success, dem boys does cook good!
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