Today was our last day on Koh Lipe Island. We got up at 10am and hijacked the kayaks before they were commandeered for the day. Cip came with us for the excursion, even though he did not join in the snorkel. We headed right (like we had the day before, but this time we were not mountain goats, but instead, pioneering sailors. With a paddle.

We paddle out and turned right, turning right again and heading towards sunset beach. The water was crystal clear again and Edd spotted a school of fish breaching 20 meters to the left of our kayaks and jumped in to investigate. He swam around and bit and then returned, unhappy with the turn out – he'd seen reasonably sized fish, but nothing to explain why they were jumping out of the water, ie: he did not see the shark or even larger fish that was probably trying to eat them.

He climbed back into the kayak, much to my delight – he tipped it on its side and I got a massive fright! We the continued to paddle out to the right, passing plastic bottles, chip packets and other remnants of human rubbish. Plastic really is the root of all-evil.

 We turned the corner and tied our kayak to the back of Cip’s – he was going to trail it behind his, while Edd and I snorkelled around the bay. We found 1 new species of fish, the same species as Dory in Finding Nemo and all the other fish we’d seen the past few days were there, but much, much bigger.

 Jelly fish were in the water with us again and stung me on my arms, I had no interest in continuing the abuse, so got back into the kayak and waited for Edd to be finished, which was soon after me.

 We then paddled back towards Sanom beach and stopped off at a beach only accessible by sea. We pulled our kayaks onto land and I immediately went on the hunt for treasures – hopefully something exciting had washed up onto shore for me to find.

 Unfortunately, nothing of interest had washed up on the beach and we were alarmed at the horrific number of water bottles that were there. We went out for a snorkel instead and left Cip to work on his tan.

 We swam out to the right and inspected the reefs in this remote part of the island and discovered nothing new again, but enjoyed the fish and the beautiful reefs one last time; we were leaving the next day, so weren’t going to be able to enjoy them again.

 We started to swim back to shore, and realised how far out we’d gone! The problem with snorkelling is that you swim far out to sea in search of great reefs and even greater fish, but then have to come back again, sometimes against the current. We’d decided to be smarter about the whole swimming out to sea thing: next time we’d swim out against the current, so that we could basically float back and not have to tire ourselves out.

 We got back on the kayaks and returned to our own private beach. We’d been out for 4 hours and were exhausted and hungry. We all took a shower and then made our way to Walking Street for pizza – the Italian place would be open today, it was Monday.

The pizza had been amazing, as always, and we went back to our bungalows – Edd and Cip for naps, me to finish my book.

 It was our last night and I wasn’t hungry, so stayed in the bungalow while Edd and Cip went to our usual spot for dinner. I packed my bag and faffed around the room until they got back after 10pm. We all went to bed soon after as we were leaving the next day and had to pack the last few bits before we left in the morning. We were not looking forward to getting up early after having spent just short of a week relaxing in this little slice of heaven.