Bye-bye Ko Lipe

So, the rest of our stay on Lipe involved lying under our favorite pine tree, eating yummy food and watching movies and live footy at Pooh's bar. They show DVD's every night on a big screen, we watched a 100% legal copy of the new James Bond. . . and I stayed up till 2.30 watching Spurs v Man U while Jacqui had a head, neck, back and shoulder massage that was out of this world from Tonsai massage opposite Pooh's massage!

We had a few snorkels out to the edge of the reef in front of our bungalow, about 200m offshore, which at low tide is only about 0.5m deep. We tried to go out then but with all the coral, was not easy. There are plenty of fish right close to shore and get quite big, most of the coral is dead which is a pity but I guess with all the boats and the tide getting so low everyday + all the snorkellers it would never have stayed alive.

We had some great meals on Lipe & I know how Ted likes a good report on food! Hot hot hot penang curries at Thai Hut Resort, Chicken with ginger and oyster sauce, iced milo shake from The Banana Tree, cheap Pad Thai(£1), 200g of fresh barbequed prawns, a 300g mackeral steak, green curry, Ho Muk(steamed fish with yellow curry served in banana leaves), chicken with cashew nuts(a favorite), Massaman curry and amazing deep fried bananas and ice cream from Zanom!

It was with heavy hearts we bode farewell to Nun & Nick from Idyllic and jumped on a longtail to Pattaya beach to get the speedboat for 1200 baht to Langkawi which is in Malaysia so involved passport control at a beach hut/restaurant. It took about an hour to get there and apart from a brief rainshower which left everyone sopping wet, was uneventful. We always seem to get caught in heavy down pours out at sea!