Category: Thailand

THIS IS BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!!!!!!!!!!! He runs Koh Kood Divers that I went scuba diving with.

This is a very sensitive plant that looks like it dies when you touch it and then it regrows and sticks up again. ( I like touching it. ) I’ve seen this plant only on the islands that I’ve been to.

This is the walk to the beach that we always go swimming at.

THIS IS THE BBBBBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCHHHHHHH that we hang out on and do stuff at like snorkling.

THIS IS MEEEEEEEEËEEEEEE sitting at Good View Coffee having a cold beverage writing this blog listening to bad\awesome music. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 off to find some more cool stuff 😉 😉 NOW!!!!

This is what scuba diving looks like except it is way more clear in reality.

We saw 3 HAMMOCKS, they looked comfortable and SOFT.

Guess if this flower is evil or not.
Write the answer below in the comments=-O

There are loads of coconut trees on this island and these coconuts looked like the were planning to take over the world and destroy the human race!!!!!!?!!

This is the most expensive hotel on the island because they probably use fairy dust as money.

This is Dad and Helens favourite ice cream and it has beans in it, ugh!!!!

BA-NA-NA-S, YAY……:-)

It’s so hot today that when we brought Dads ice cream it melted in 3 minutes SO THAT PROVES HOW HOT IT IS.

BON VOYAGE.

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Lukoia Coffey over and out.

Last night we gave our scuba diving friends a piece of green stone each ( new zealand jade ) and a beer to drink for giving us the scuba diving trip for free. We were all very tired from the trip to open sea, so when we got home we went straight to bed.

In the morning I jumped on Dad to wake him up and then all of us stretched and yawned and we were off to get coffee and toast with jam.

After that, Dad and I went snorkling but when we got down there the tide from where it is normally was back another 7 meters. Not only that but the visibility under water and less than 3 meters in every direction.

When we got to the corner where Bob and the scuba dive place was, Dad went the way to get food and I went back home and played on my ipod that is reacting to the heat and over heating itself.

Right now i’m sitting in a chair on the side of the river doing my blog that people all over the world are now Iooking at and experiencing my travels from a deck chair at home in where ever home is.

Anyway, Dad is having a concert tonight up the road at a place called Bartist and if you want to come, just get a flight to ” Trat ” from where ever home is and then get a boat over, and it’s as easy as that. It starts at 8:00.

Bye, BON VOYAGE.

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Lukoia Coffey over and out.

Today we went on a boat to an island to go scuba diving and it was so fun. We had to walk across mud flats to get to a little red boat and on the way in the boat through the mangroves, we hit the bottom more then a couple times. Dad had to get out and push the boat sometimes over the mud flats but when we got out to the real boat that had all the gear on it we were sailing like a bird.

When we got out to the island I put on all of my scuba gear. It was very heavy, but then when I jumped off the bulwarks into the water I couldn’t feel it at all. Dad and Helen with their snorkle gear went in one direction and Greg ( my dive instructor ) and I went in the other direction.

He let all the air out of my BCD( bouyancy control device ) and we both slowly sank to the bottom. We went down 7 meters into sand and he slowly showed me how to control my regulator and other pieces of my equipment.
After this, we stood up and walked a little bit along the bottom but then we started to float so we let some air out of our BCD and swam along the bottom. While we did that, I was playing around with my BCD and floating around Greg. Afterwards, we explored the coral reef and this was one of the best places that we will go on this trip. The amount of living coral was amazing!!!!!!!! We spent an hour under water and it felt like it was only 15 minutes.

When we got back on board, we had lunch and then went to another place around the point to do some more snorkling.

 

When we got there, I jumped off the roof of the boat and did it another million times with smiles and laughter. This other place was good but it was really deep there so it would have been better if I was scuba diving.

All three of us had a great time, and can’t wait until August in Belize when we get our open water certificates.

BON VOYAGE…. See you later after I have a good nights sleep. YAAAAAAWN!!!!

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Lukoia Coffey over and out.

The 2nd day in Koh Kood we did this……

1. We woke up in the morning and I had 8 pieces of toast.

2. We went to the beach and went snorkeling in clearer water then Koh jum.

3.I met a boy from France and his name was Esteban.

4.Dad, Estaban and I played a ball game out in the sea.

5.Dad, Estaban and I made a huge sand castle/pyramid.

6.Estaban and I hung out in the sea together.

7.We went home and had a delicious lunch.

8.We saw a big water monitor on our way to the beach to play more with Estaban.

9. We played more with Estaban at the beach/ in the water.

10.We went back to our homestay and got some dry clothes on and relaxed.

11.We got ready for Dads show at the Tawan eco bar down the road.

12.On the way we met a guy from France and his name was Bob and he owns a diving shop.

13.We went past a shop that said every thing in the world is coming soon.

14.We went past a place that said high season because they only sell in high season.

15.We got to the eco bar, and I thought it was so cool that I would like to own the place.

16.The eco bar gave us seafood for dinner and it tasted so good!

17.The guy at the eco bar let us have every drink for free.

18.Dad played a couple songs with the other people there, and then he played a bunch of his own songs.

19.Helen and I lay down on pillows listening to Dads music.

20.We walked home in the dark and it was really fun.

21.I went straight to bed feeling happy for a great day.

GOOD NIGHT:-) 🙂 !!!!!!!!!

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Lukoia Coffey over and out.

Yesterday we woke up at our normal time at about 7:00 and we had chicken noodle soup for breakfast at the day market. I tried every spice on the table in it, and it still tasted great. A couple minutes after that a free taxi arrived at our guest house and we got a ride to the boat pier where the Koh Kood princess was waiting for us. The koh Kood princess is a boat that ships people from the main land to Koh Kood. Warning …it’s a very slow ride.

On the boat ride over I imagined that the whole boat was wooden and had no motor, just 7 sails.

When we were coming into the docks it already felt like home and when we were on our way to our home stay we got SOAKED:-) !!!!!!!!! AND POWDERED WITH WHITE SKIN STUFF.. (Talcum powder). Everyone is celebrating over here too.But when we got a bungalow our stuff dried out and on the way to the other bungalow we saw a snake on the road and he had a triangular head so he was poisonous.

Our bungalow is sitting on top of the water and it’s so amazing in the morning to watch the sun rise over the high tide through the mangrove trees, which the fish and hermit crabs swim around and hang out on.

So far is been great here on the island and it will be for 1 week and 6 days more!!!!

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A couple days ago we left Koh jum and went to Krabi. When we got there we went and got food because we were so hungry. After that we went and put our bags in our bedroom and after we got that done we went to the night market and got a huge portion of meat and meat sticks. When we got back home we went straight to bed because we had to wake up at 6:30!!!!!!

In the morning we woke up at 6:30 and we got a taxi to the Krabi airport to catch our flight.

When we got our flight, dad had problems with his guitar, and he had to put it under the plane because the people there didn’t care even though there was plenty of space on the plane. When we got to Bangkok his guitar was good still so we got another taxi to the bus station in Bangkok.

When we got to the bus station we went to the counter and got tickets to Trat and they said that we had 50 seconds until we had to go and so far we had’nt had any food and it was about 12.00 O.clock. Dad rushed to the snack bar and bought us some some snacks while Helen and I went to the bus.

When we got on the bus we devoured the snacks and waited 4 hours until we came to Trat……

4 hours later…..

We were coming into Trat and it was crazy because it was the welcoming of the monsoon season, and Thai new year, Sonkran;Water every where and water guns squirting. On the way to the bus station we saw……
People on the back of utes having water wars and that was just a tiny little bit of it. People standing on the side of the road with hoses and big buckets of water. When we got off the bus we got a blue taxi to where we were going to stay. On the way, we needed to put our rain coat over our bags because we got SOAKED!!!!!! when we got to our guest house we put our bags down and went and had a huge feast at the night market.

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The other day we were riding along and we saw a big sign advertising snake shows. We went in to check it out, and got talking with the guy (who was kindah cool but a bit freaky) He showed us all the different snakes he had in concrete enclosures. There were jungle snakes, a couple of 5 metre long king cobras, and some other cobras as well as a big python. The guy was a bit mean to them, he poked them with a stick to make them move and they hissed and lurched at him. He kept telling us to come back tomorrow for the show and pay 500 baht, but we saw all the snakes for free and since we didn’t like the way he was treating them we decided not to go to the show. But it was cool to see the snakes. I got to hold one that was probably poisonous, but the guy said it was an ant eating snake. It was black and it had yellow eyes with lots of bumpy bits along it. The guy said that was from ants biting it, but I didn’t think so. I wrapped it around my neck, it felt scaley and its muscles were really strong.

After that we went down the road on our motorbike and had lunch at sunset bay which is way down the coast.  On the outside of the toilet wall there was a cage that had a sea eagle in it. He looked totally MAJESTIC! His eyes were unblinking, his beak was sharp, his talons were like razors.

The owner of the sea eagle was really nice to it, he put his hand into the cage and stroked the bird, but it hopped away after a little while. I gave him some of my chicken which he liked. And in two minutes all the crumbs that he dropped were covered with red ants. He looked like he wanted to be free, and it gave me the idea of getting my own pet hawk when we get back to NZ. I drew up a rough plan for the aviary that I want to build oneday, I’m working on the prototype now.

It will have lots of undergrowth and greenery growing inside it, and I’ll have to prune the trees alot to keep them inside the enclosure.

It’s hard to see, but thats a pyramid shaped roof which will go on top of the rectangular shaped aviary room. I plan on learning falconry so I can have my own bird one day.

The end. Lukoia Coffey over and out.

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 ☺☺☺☺☺☺

Yesterday we went driving around Koh Lanta island on our motorbikes, we did a big loop and on the way we stopped at a mangove forest and they tried to charge us 1,000 baht for a ride on a long tail boat to see the reforestation that they are doing there. We chose not to do it.

After that we went to a big ash tree on the side of the road for a little break. I saw a black and yellow lizard on the tree then when I hung from the tree, I got red ants all over me. They felt sticky and after that we carried on driving again and did the full loop back to where we were staying. We kept on driving and saw a sad elephant chained to a tree so we stopped and gave him some pats.

 

Then we went to an animal welfare place, and got to see all the dogs and cats that they rescue on the island. The local people arent very good at looking after animals very nicely here. They had 5 packs of dogs in different areas and we got to go into the puppy chamber. 185 animals got adopted from there last year and most of them were transported overseas. That’s pretty amazing I thought.

Mum and I went and explored a really amazing cave after that. It was a 40 minute walk through the jungle to get there. We had a guide with us and 2 other people, it didnt take long to get there because we talked the whole way.

Inside the cave had a really cool temperature, with high walls and roof.  It echoed all the noises we made. We had to walk over bamboo bridges in there and go up and down little ricketty ladders. Sometimes the space the huge and other times we had to crawl through little parts to get out. In the last area we saw hundreds of bats hanging everywhere.

That morning we went to a nice restaurant and I got a…… Full English breakfast which is a pot of tea, (that mum had) 2 pieces of toast with alot of jam and butter, some streaky bacon, 2 over sized sausages, some baked beans and SCRAMBLED EGGS!!!!!!!! It was great! And not Thai!

The end!!!!! Lukoia Coffey over and out