Our beach, from the adjacent headland.
Our deluxe accommodations.
It was a little noisy the first night as a bar a quarter-mile up the road was cranking techno crap until 4:30am. Tig was less than impressed. It was better last night, the Thai boxing match wrapped up around 1am, so we got some sleep. I am of the impression that if one could faithfully record the ambient noise in a Thai tourist town at about 1:00am, it would make an effective car alarm.
I know, we sound lame, getting to bed before midnight. But when your entire day is spent in the hot sun, staving off dehydration with 600-ml bottles of beer, well, snooze time arrives early. We spent one night up until 11 or so, hanging with a French Canadian couple at a reefer bar, then last night we spent a couple of hours in a great hut-restaurant chatting with a Japanese guy (formerly of New York) who just finished a 10-day fast and regaled us with stories of high colonics and gall stones...
You know it is illegal to remove coral from Thai beaches, ecology, erosion etc. Foreigners can be charged many Baht for trying. Of course, they need coral in case they want to try to build a wall by cementing some of it together...then decide to light up and just do the whole rasta-colours on concrete thing..or, maybe just forget the whole wall building thing altoether...
I mentioned earlier that tourist numbers are way down this year. Throwing caution and supply-side economics to the wind, Thai tourism operators are responding by doubling prices on everything. Still, cheaper to be a tourist here than a working person in Canada, but we notice prices creeping up compared to when we booked, and compared to month-old local tourist guides.
So things are great on the beach. All's well. Hope all our westcoast friends are finding their way throught the snow. Probably a few days before I blog again. Our plans are in flux, we are looking at going to Krabi now, but who knows when. Happy festivus everyone.
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