Bugger Bognor
Bugger Bognor
Koh Libong is a lovely, unspoilt island. Truth be told, ‘attractions’ are pretty thin on the ground. This morning we decided to start by visiting one of the top tips: Point Dubong, where a tower has been built to aid viewings of the ever more elusive dubong – an aquatic beastie something like a walrus […]
Dugongs don’t, but turtles do Read More »
Boy, that was brutal! Looks cheerful I’ll grant you. But the reality of the ferry from Koh Lipe to our next destination, Ko Libong, was an hour of spine-shuddering, filling-loosening impacts, as the boat took off from one wave only to hammer down onto the next. Absolutely relentless. The next hour or so, the sea
Spinal tap, tap, thud! Read More »
Let’s face it, there’s not much to do on an island the size of a pocket handkerchief, but we had another lovely day on the beach, thank you. Marred only a tad when the guy selling me a beer tried to cheat me with 130 in change. “I gave you a thousand,” I said, and
Rinse & repeat. Innit Read More »
We went to the beach. It was lovely. We’ve come back for a shower. In a bit, we’re going back for the sunset. It’s hell, but someone has to do it. And so we did.
Another day of ceaseless endeavour Read More »
Up at the crack…well, 7.30ish…for our postponed snorkeling island tour. We’d chosen the five island option: in our experience the longer ones can start to become a bit of an ordeal at the end of a long day of off the boat, swim, on the boat, chug chug chug, off the boat, swim, rinse &
Underground overground snorkeling free Read More »
The original plan was to take a snorkeling trip, but when we saw the weather we decided to postpone for a day. As it turned out, the forecast was completely wrong and we could have gone after all, but by then we’d missed the boat, literally as well as figuratively, so we decided instead to
And there was us thinking it would be a few palm leaf huts by a sleepy seashore. Having said which, it’s pretty quiet till the evenings. Presumably all the young folk are off scuba diving and that, or sleeping off last night’s excess. And in truth there’s really not a whole lot to do during
Koh Lipe – it’s a (not a lot) happening place Read More »
D’ja see what I did there, didja? Hem… Anyway, moving on… Wow but it’s nice here. An island so small that you can walk from our beach to Sunrise Beach – literally right across the island – in about 15 minutes. And that’s not walking fast. Because even now, at five in the evening, it’s
We’ve hit t’island Read More »
Half ten of another glorious morning, and I’m sitting out on the verandah killing an hour waiting for the cab to the ferry, doing a bit of blog housekeeping ready for the whole new chapter that will be Thailand. And it occurs to me that while these posts have provided unending fun and adventure, intrigue,
Malaysia – a few final thoughts… Read More »
Following last night’s prophetic triumph, when I assured Virle that it wouldn’t rain and half an hour later we got hit by a deluge of monsoon proportions on the way to the night market at Kuah, I should have known better than to assure her that there clearly wasn’t a breath of wind before we
Finally, we walk in the sky Read More »