We were up early. The birds sit on our spreaders at night and pooped all over the deck so after breakfast we swabbed the boat clean of bird poop 💩. Then we got ready to leave. We decided to try Captain Hooks again. It was a short motor back up to Captain Hook’s Resort. Once anchored, Rick decided it was time to do some laundry. Here’s a picture of Rick’s new venture, creatively called Rick’s Laundry Service.
One of the sights at Captain Hook’s is a river that you can go up in the dingy. At night it is supposed to be full of fireflies but they recommend going up during the day before trying it at night. So we took the dinghy along the shore and sandbar and then up the river. The river had a couple of restaurants and a small resort.
Then we decided to continue along the shoreline to the next resort, a little further south on Koh Kut.
We tied up the dingy and climbed the ladder onto the dock. We walked along and saw a coffee shop. Rick needed more ground coffee so we went in to see if we could buy some. The woman in the shop didn’t speak any English so it was difficult. Rick was trying to mime what he wanted and that didn’t work. Then the lady was trying to use google translate. That wasn’t working either. Then an English speaking woman arrived. She was able to translate and we ultimately got our coffee. We all had a good laugh about the process.
In the store there was a brochure for a souvenir shop so we asked for directions and decided to walk there. It was about a 15 minute walk in the hot sun. Unfortunately there wasn’t any thing that we wanted to buy there so we walked back. We were going to try to eat lunch at the resort but couldn’t find the dining room so we came back to the boat for lunch. We had our usual cold cuts for lunch.
After lunch we digested for a little while and then went snorkeling at a little reef about 500 ft away. We had seen dive and snorkel boats tied up there previously. They must feed the fish because they swarmed us as soon as we got in. We saw zebra fish, parrot fish, and others we don’t know the names of. Rick saw a giant abalone. It was fun to be in the water. After about an hour we came back to the boat and took showers.
That evening we went to Captain Hook’s Resort for dinner. We didn’t go up the river to see the fireflies because it was low tide.
When we got back to the boat it was really rolling. The wind had the boat pointing perpendicular to the swell, so the boat was rocking back and forth. There was nothing we could do about it. Our contract says we can’t move the boat after dark so we had to live with it. It was a long night with limited sleep. The other boat anchored in the same bay left because it was so bad. At one point we heard a slamming noise and thought we had hit another boat or a reef. Fortunately it was just a cabinet door in the head. The whole boat was creaking. Rick vowed that we weren’t going to put ourselves through a night like that ever again.