Our last full day on the boat. 😢
We were up early and off the anchor by 8. We headed to our snorkel spot in the national park. While motoring we noticed that the boat seemed to be going slower than normal. We arrived at our spot and anchored. Today we had the place all to ourselves. We loaded our snorkel stuff into the dingy and headed over to one of the islands. We tied the dinghy to a tree and started snorkeling. I had Rick’s snorkel and he had mine. What a pleasure not to have to clear my snorkel every three breaths. He had the same leaky problem with mine. We saw lots of fish. We don’t have an underwater camera so no pictures. We headed back to the boat where Rick though he could fix my snorkel. He added some zip ties and then took it out for a spin. Still leaking. We ended up throwing it away. While testing the snorkel he notice some roots were wrapped around the propeller which was slowing us down. He worked for a little while to get the roots off but no luck. We sailed most of the way back to Koh Mak because the roots were really causing a lot of vibration when the motor was on and in gear. We arrived at Koh Mak, got anchored and Rick went to work again on the roots. Success this time!
Then we went into the Koh Mak Resort for happy hour and just to check our flights. Koh Mak north is very busy tonight we are one of nine boats. We came back to the boat to enjoy the sunset.Â
We went into dinner a little early because we were afraid our favorite restaurant, Seavana, would be crowded from all the boats in the bay. We had another delicious dinner.Â
The moon has been very full the last three night and the tides have been extreme. We had beached our dinghy before dinner and when we came out to return to our boat we had to drag it a long way back to the water. Â