passenger: Swim until you can't see Land

I spent the last couple of days in Laem Mae Phim, Rayong; an amazing beach town that I've been to about a dozen times now and have definitely already posted pictures of.

I had a wonderful days out on the ocean swimming with the fishies (and tons of sea urchin, ouch!). Also, went to Koh Man Nai to see the sea turtles.

Koh Man Nai is a heartwarming success story. Concerned about the rapid decline of sea turtle populations in Thailand, Queen Sirikit initiated the “Queen’s Project on Sea Turtle Conservation” by donating her island, Koh Mannai, to the Department of Fisheries, in order to help protect, rescue and breed more turtles.
The protection of many species of turtles has been so successful on the island that many turtles that were once on the endangered list in Thailand have been removed and are no longer facing of extinction due to this initiative alone.

Later on, we had an amazing thirty minute swim to an uninhabited, deserted island. It was beautiful and I realized that I'd be very interested in staying on the island and building a tree house, making moonshine and coconut xylophones and having a monkey butler.

Unfortunately I couldn't swim to the island with anything so you'll have to envision it on your own.

Harbour

boys playing dead

sea urchins

Chris, Tanya, Andrew, Johnno and I went into town one day and had an amazing jam session in the back of a pick up truck. I think it was one of the best days I've had since being here.
We did an acoustic version of "Hit Me Baby (One More Time). I shot a video of it and I'll try to post it up here when I figure out how to.