Today Dave and I planned to go to the beach - a 2 minute walk from the hotel! Chris was still suffering with his sunburn so decided to stay inside out of the sun, but we arranged to meet him at lunchtime in the bar for some food. At the beach we picked a spot in the shade, under some palm trees loaded with coconuts which looked like they could fall on our heads at any time - a bit scary but we didn't want to be in the sun! The beach was beautiful and very peac...

After a much better night's sleep, we packed up again and left our little bungalow/shack behind. We took a taxi from the hotel to the port at Thong Sala where we thought we could catch a boat to Samui at 10am based on what our guidebook said - wrong! No boat until 11am so we waited around and arranged a transfer to our hotel on the other side. Our SeaTran ferry eventually arrived and we were off for the short hop (about half an hour) to Big Buddha pier, named a...