Yesterday was still overcast, so I decided to visit Bang Bao, a fishing village on the south end of the island. Getting there was easier than I had thought it would be--I started walking down the road, and within 50m I ran into a group of Thais sitting in a circle on the floor of a store nearby. When I asked them when the taxi would be coming, one of them volunteered to drive me there on the back of his motorbike for 30 baht. Sweet deal.
The village (pictured above as seen from the lighthouse at the end of the pier), consists almost entirely over the water, with the stores, restaurants, and guest houses bridging out from the pier itself. There are numerous fishing and touristy boats hanging out on the sides of the pier past the village, and a lone white lighthouse stands guard at the end, inhabited only by a handful of Thai fishermen finished with the day's work.
Me on the lighthouse.
It was cool to see the stores suspended over the water like this. Here I tried to get a shot of it so you can see.
Today it is actually sunny, though there are still some clouds. I tried to see about snorkelling, but apparently the trips leave at 8:30am and are gone all day til 5pm, so I literally missed the boat this morning. I don't believe that they are all like that, all day, so I'm going to go up the island to try to find something else to do, or just go back and hang around on the beach. I'm so used to having an itinerary that's jam-packed that I have this weird, fervent, guilty feeling right now, like I should be doing something that I'm not. Yesterday I had to tell myself to relax, that it was okay to lie in a hammock like 3 times. Curses on my incessant need to overschedule myself. I'm considering renting a motorbike to just cruise up and down the island, but the drivers here are pretty scary, I don't know if I want to do that just yet. Well, I'm off to find the next thing!
Fishing boat at the end of the pier.
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