first beach holiday

greetings to all our loyal fans.

we know that some of you have recognised and appreciated our efforts towards improving our blog. daddy is getting really quite keen especially as some of the blogs of the people we have met along the way have been highly professional.
the slide show is a particular triumph.

for the past couple of days we have been staying on an island two hours boat ride from ranong on the coast of west thailand. staying in a typical beach resort but 'the russian' who runs it has made us feel most welcome and even helped to catch us some fresh fish that we ate for dinner this evening. we had a whole fish each and are feeling pretty fat but content as the fish was more than worth it.

have been having a good dose of human interaction with an english family (graham, loraine, hannah, emily and abigail) that we have been trying to met for a while now; they are drving from london to australia taking about nine months in total.
they came in an appropriate toyota landcruiser but have not been having fun with their car lately as their steering pump has gone and the garage does not have the correct parts. there are toyotas all over the shop in asia but all the parts are different from those that you would get in europe and all the types have seperate parts also.
going to the mainland tomorrow with them so that they can chase up the garage and we can continue south.

have had lots of fun on the island including hiring a motobike that daddy will not ride on with me unless he can drive. chicken. the water on our side of the island is sooo hot- literally bath temperature but everyone loves it.
i got my swimming in early in the morning when the water was cooler (i say cooler...) and the tide in but we still had to walk about a mile out from the shore before i could not stand up in the water. really quite shallow.

we are hoping to be in singapore in about a week so tessie is getting most excited about being back in her homeland.
i'm looking forward to watching the new james bond film.
however, we are all looking forward to camping on some more beaches.

have so far spent only one night on a beach half way done the east coast of thailand with the top cover off the tent. it was quiet with a good sunset and we were left undisturbed. water has been a little bit murky so far though so we are looking forward to malaysia wiht anticipation as daddy has promised us spectacular beaches there.


have met literally some english speaking people since being in this area and we have promised a 'shout-out' to all of them:
1. adrian- the man who showed us the internet cafe in ranong and who subsequently enbarked on a race against time when graham and his family told us on skype that there we had half an hour to catch a boat out to this island. adrian jumped in wilma with us and sorted us out and the tiny port.

2. richard- the owner of oscar's bar, located on the one main road this island has. we were told to go to him and assured that he would 'sort us out' this was indeed the case as when we arrived on the island we had no idea where we were going and no trasport.

3. two girls from israel that we met in oscar's bar- staying on the other side of the island- we gave them and two friendly german guys some of our bags as we thought we were staying in the same place and could not fit all of them on to the motorbike-taxis we got.

4. the man from israel- meeting him for breakfast on the other side of the island tomorrow before we leave for the mainland tommorrow afternoon (we are trying to make full use of the motorbike we rented for 200 bhat/ day). into kayaking and seems to genuinely enjoy our company. free bed in tel aviv.

5. lovely english speaking french family with children- anything that keeps lewis away from us for a period of time can only be deemed a good thing

will either stay in a hotel in ranong tomorrow or try to go 100 km away from 16:00- 18:00 (when to 2 hours boat ride gets in- when night falls) as we are told that is when the nice beaches on the mainland start.

all getting pretty brown, apart from daddy who is getting pretty pink.

we are really into this blog lark now so will be sorting out lots of new photographs next time.
we know you love it.