In the early hours of the morning I heard serious thunder and got rather
worried as we were going on our boat trip today. We were collected at 9am and taken down to
the pier at Chalong Bay for our trip aboard the Merdeka. This boat is a spa boat and belongs to Neil
Dibb who is a good friend of my boss, Campbell Alexander. We were met by Addy, the skipper, who got us
onto a local bus to go to the boat. We
set sail at about 9:45. The weather was
rather overcast and the water quite choppy which did not go down well with me,
so I just sat rather still trying to look at the horizon. At some points the boat was seriously rocking
from side to side. We anchored near a
small cove at the back of Coral Island.
We got into the water and snorkeled for a while, but with the water
being so choppy and being the first time that I was snorkeling, I was not too
happy in the water, so we left and went around to Banana Beach. A long tail boat came and collected us and
took us on to the beach. After having
something to drink we arranged chairs for ourselves and then went snorkeling.
Wow is all I can say! I have
never snorkeled before as I can’t see without my glasses but I recently got
contact lenses to wear whilst doing gym and had them on and could not believe
the life under the water. The coral and
fish were amazing and if I made a fist the fish would swim up to me thinking I
had food and nibble my hand and even my legs – quite a weird feeling.
At about 1:30 we had lunch – Dereck had a Thai chicken curry and I had
Thai chicken with cashews and chili – both very enjoyable. After lunch we went snorkeling again and at
about 2:45 the long tail boat took us back to the Merdeka and headed off back
to the pier, whilst eating freshly cut watermelon and pineapple. Once back at the pier we got the local bus to
our taxi who then took us home where we showered and relaxed.
Had an early night – I think the lovely fresh sea air got to us.
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