Yesterday we got picked up from our bungalow to go to the Old Town pier where we caught a long tail boat to the islands. We headed off but after half an hour we broke down on the way. So our capitan had to go swimming to redo the chain on the engine and in 10 minutes we were off again. Our first stop was an island with heaps of bats hanging from the cliffs. Those black bits are all clusters of bats.
Our second stop was for snorkelling in a little rocky bay. There were heaps of tiger fish, parrot fish and I saw a few dog fish too.
In our group of 9 tourists, one lady had a fish phobia and another lady couldn’t swim, so it was pretty funny watching them get in. Our next stop was THE EMERALD CAVE ON KOH MOOK ISLAND!!!! This was the highlight of the trip because we had to swim through a dark cave for 80 metres into an enclosed cove with high cliffs and jungle all around. Its a place where pirates used to stash their booty.
I took lots of photos with my underwater camera, but its not compatible with this tablet so i cant upload them right now.
Anyway, my mum was a little jumpsy while we were going thru the darkness of the cave, and when we first went in we could see this bright turquoise light coming up from underneath the surface. When we got into the cove it was orange and red from all the people wearing life jackets. The guide took us out before it got to be high tide and we still just barely made it out under some of the underhangs. We had a big space to ourselves in the cave on the way out, and luckily we left because there were heaps of big tourist boats with loads more people coming in.
After that we went to another island across the way for lunch. I jumped off the boat about 3/4’s of the way across and swam to shore.We snorkelled more after lunch then came back to Koh Lanta.
On the way home in the truck we got fumed out by diesel!!!! It was Yuk! But apart from that we had an awesome day.
Lukoia Coffey over and out ☺☺☺☺☺☺