sunny green season

'Green season' as the locals call it, has arrived in Phuket, and I am very happy to report that it is sunny and green and am not sure why folks stay away during this beautiful time. I then think that advertising this as a 'Green' rainy season is the locals way of having some rest bite from the hoards of travellers that come to Phuket year round. However freedivers tend to not be so fusy with regards to a drop of rain so this Green Season has little to no effect on their mission to seek out beautiful clear warm sea to freedive in. 

We have had the delight of teaching a few freedivers here over the last week: Lidiya and partner Maksym from Ukraine, Tim from H.K and now the beautiful familiar face of Jacinta whom we met in the Koh Lanta Freediving Competition 2010. Jacinta will be freediving with us over the next few days and we are looking forward to showing her around our back yard..i.e the Andaman Sea Phuket stylee :-)

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from Krabi to Phang-Nga

Another day in the saddle and we arrived in the surprisingly beautiful little town of Phang-Nga. We set off from Krabi early morning but found the going hard at the start, our saddles felt like someone had swapped them for wood and our leg muscles started burning after the first 1km. It also started to rain whilst we had stopped for a delicious breakfast, and I am not just talking about 'rain' but proper Thailand 'RAIN'! We waited until the rain had formed what I can only describe as 'English rain', persistent drizzle then we donned our waterproofs and set off.

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from Trang to Krabi

This is now our longest day in the saddle so far, we left Trang early morning and travelled 127km to Krabi. So this morning I have found a lovely little coffee house in Krabi town with cushioned chairs and am resting my aching body.

Our original plan was to head to Lanta to drop by on some friends but as we were on the road decided that we would rather be in Krabi and go to Lanta in a few weeks time when more of our friends get there. This also means that we only have one more stop in Phang-Nga before we hit Phuket, journey's end. Which is not so bad as we have just received news that Sean is coming back to us for another freediving course on the 15th October. We first met Sean in Dahab, Egypt and we talked him into trying freediving and he got hooked and now is coming back for more. It'll be great to meet up again, and I think he will be our first student in Phuket.

 

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from Satun to Trang

Okay, so we cheated a bit....we did not end up cycling the full 140km yesterday from Satun to Trang. We decided to get a bus ride from Satun to Palian, a distance of 80km covered by bus which left us an easy 60km to get to Trang. As it happened the whole bus journey was in glorious sunshine, we get dropped off and the clouds start gathering and we spend the last 20km riding in the rain. The Travis song 'why does it always rain on me?' kept repeating in my head, at least it was warm rain.

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