Breakfast brought to our apartment by 2 cheery Burmese girls. All manner of cakes, pastries and croissants and a pot of coffee all on bamboo woven trays. We enjoyed this on our balcony looking out on the White sand and turquoise ocean (sorry to go on about the view).
We had booked a fishing boat for this morning, which arrived on our bit of beach to collect us at 8. We thought we start early before the intense heat of the day.
The boat was a sampan style again, shallow and quite precarious, I’m guessing to avoid rocks and coral below. It had a portable motor rather like a strimmer, which could be ripped up out of the water quickly.
Fitted with snorkel and flippers I was soon gazing amongst the new underwater landscape of rocks and coral at an incredible variety of tropical fish as well as old lobster pots.
We anchored up at various snorkelling locations before being taken to the fishing village over on the other side of an island, eventually arriving at the desert island where we pottered about looking for shell treasures on the beach.
Lunch of delicious avocado salad and another local delicacy at a small local restaurant, set us up nicely for a chilled out afternoon of swimming exploring and just lazing.
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We returned to the same restaurant for dinner and this time asked them to supply the ingredients for a Pinocolado which was not on their list of cocktails- they were of course very obliging, as we have found the local people to be everywhere we go. Just $8 for a fantastic meal and including 2 cocktails!!!