Twice a day every day a converted fishing boat arrives just offshore, anchors up with a blast on its horn. A enormous length of large diameter blue piping is then thrown overboard and connected to anther similar pipe on the shore. It transpires this is the water supply to the resort. The vessel fills up; presumably somewhere on the mainland and decants it into the resort. I guess the island cannot support the number of resorts and hotels with water from the island itself.
Similarly, a large speed boat anchors up daily just along the beach. This is the laundry boat. A line of workers haul the bundles of laundry and other supplies like worker ants.
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ABOVE LEFT is the water supply boat. You can just make ot the blue pipe running from the boat to the shore
ABOVE RIGHT is the laundry boat.
FRIDAY 7th:
After breakfast we opted for the long walk to the main "town" of Na Dan (also called Samet Village). Interesting enough walk but the town itself is a bit scruffy and, frankly, not worth the visit.
Stopped off for some cold drinks and ice cream and hit the 7-11 to stock up on snacks; crisps, noodle packets for Jack, etc. We didn't fancy the walk back so we jumped on one of the Songthaews (the usual open pick-ups; called Baht-buses in Pattaya). 200 Baht for the very bumpy trip back to Tubtim.
Afternoon saw my family enjoying the waves for an hour or so whilst I was (still) confined to sitting it out with my book. That mask recovery under the barnacle encrusted raft has caused me a LOT of grief as my wounds are still not healed anything like enough.
A glass of Shiraz preceded our trek along the beach to a restaurant we've been to before in a pleasant setting. Ordered a mini banquet along with a bottle of house white and finished up just in time as the idiots with their boring fire show were setting up.
SATURDAY 8th:
Breakfast at 08:00. Went for a walk from the other end of our beach, away from our usual direction. This ends up on a rocky promontory with waves crashing below us. After a while we stopped and retraced our steps to a junction in the rough track which appeared to go high up to another small resort. This was dominated by a bar/eatery jacked-up on wooden piles. It looked very basic but it did have a bar/restaurant there which was brimming with character. We ordered a few drinks here and took in the ambience.
I got the impression it was a vegan/vegetarian eatery. There where hints of witchcraft and spooky things about the place.
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The bar/restaurant on stilts called Noina's Kitchen bar and eatery.
SATURDAY 8th (continued):
Back down and out along the beach to the White Sands resort bar and restaurant for lunch. Relaxed under the shade of huge beach trees by the beach whilst our cupboard/room was being serviced.
Spent some time organising our next step after vacating Ko Samet in 2 days time.
A couple of days near Chantaburi was selected and booked.
No strolling along the beach for dinner this evening as we opted to eat here at the Tubtim. A mini banquet consisting Panang, Chicken & cashew nuts, fried rice & a burger for Jack.
These fire display idiots are impossible to ignore. Initially, we sat at a table near to edge of the restaurant and then I thought; hang-on this where the fire-idiots perform because I'd seen them here on the previous night. OK, I thought, we'll move tables near to the beach side and wouldn't you know it the buggers set up their stinky (kerosene) performance in front of us instead. No escape!
SUNDAY 9th:
Our last full day on Ko Samet. I'll miss the island for sure but I won't miss the crappy little box of a cabin we've been shoe-horned into with a stinking open drain just outside which meant sitting out on the verandah was unpleasant.
After breakfast Aom & I went up the hill to pick up our laundry. After which we sat out on the beach whilst Jack frolicked in waves. A belt of rain came in forcing many into the covered restaurant area. Ate some lunch here and back to our little dump at 14:00.
Evening saw us back in The Reef restaurant. This is the place that has its own pizza oven. Jack loved the pizza here several day ago so on our last night on the island this is where we dined. Good food but a touch more expensive than most others. Very popular as most table were booked in advance but we managed to squeeze in.
One of the serving staff looked very familiar to us. It eventually twigged that we'd seen him working in the High Season Resort on Ko Kood. He recognised us too and he and Aom chatted for ages after dinner.
Tried (in vane) to get an early night and leave packing in the morning. We use a modular packing system; all our clothes and other stuff are in packing cubes. This makes packing and unpacking a breeze and takes a fraction of the time to pack in the cases. In the event we were all packed and ready in good time.
Bills paid at Reception who then phoned the ferry company to book us on board. An hour later we jumped on to a Songthaew for the incredibly bumpy rough ride to the port and the virtual ants-nest and chaos of boarding the speedboat ferry over to Rayong
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