July 24th, 2014
Moving very slowly around here….
I would like to be able to tell you about all the amazing adventures we had today! But alas, I can not. Due to my over exposure to the sun yesterday, I’m not very comfortable today, so it was a big enough effort for me to get myself up and to breakfast (such a yummy breakfast it was). Came back to the room and spent up until almost 3pm reading my book! Had to finish that 😃😃 once that was done, we made the supreme effort to get ourselves out the door for a walk to explore some more. We ended up finding the other half of our resort (there is a seaside part also in addition to the courtyard part we are in). I must say I’m glad we are where we are, the other seaside part is much smaller and quieter than where we are. And those folks have to get shuttled up here for breakfast (which doesn’t seem like any fun). It is indeed on the beach, but the beach isn’t really a great place to hang out this time of year. There are very dangerous riptides so you can’t play in the water and it is extremely windy, so there are wind screens up in front of all the bungalows and I’m just not a big wind person.
We wandered down the main(ish) road to get to the highway that runs through the actual town of Khao Lak. Always scoping out places for supper as we make our way along as we will be coming back right about the time that that becomes an issue.
We found the police boat that we saw with the girls in 2009 that was swept inland by the water over 2kms when the tsunami hit. It is a nicer more official park now. It is called the 813 Tsunami Memorial Park now and the boat has been righted and is set in concrete stabilizers. When we saw it before, it was just in a field on its side. I guess they have been busy in the last 5 years.
There isn’t much else to see out on the highway, but we did have to make our way around this poor St. Bernard. He looked absolutely wiped….and I was impressed with the flexibility.
We stopped at Mali seafood after checking out several places. Had a nice meal of Phad Thai and chicken with cashew nut.
I’m surprised to see how much more expensive food is here than Chiang Mai. I don’t recall this from before in 2009. Thai dishes are running around 150baht. We pay 70-90 baht for the same dishes in Chiang Mai! It’s still cheap enough compared to what we pay at home, just more than we are used to paying…I guess this balances out with the much less expensive hotel room. I was able to get 5 more nights at the Fanari (with our upgrade to the pool access room) for $27 a night 😃😃 can’t beat that!
