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Ko Rok Nok

Sunday 21st November

The weather cleared as we got away from the mainland coast towards this little group of islands.  David got the winch mended, but the possibility of picking up a mooring between the two islands was comforting, just in case...

There’s a cross right where we picked the mooring up, because it is full of bommies and coral in the area – but in fact it was just right in the middle of the channel, in 15 meters of water with no coral around at all, just a sandy bottom.  The mooring was a huge lump of rock!

The sole long tail boat on the beach shows how crystal clear the water is –

This time, we definately jump in, no jellyfish in sight! Not too many fish either, but the coral is in good condition, and much larger clams than we had seen before.

We go ashore to find out if there is a restaurant that we can buy some ice from:  our fridge and freezer compressor had stopped working as soon as we had left Langkawi, and all our food was warming up fast! 

But it’s just a camp site in the National Park.  We have no ice, say the girls at the camping site canteen, busy making up their reefs to launch out to sea that night to celebrate ‘LOY KRATONG’, which marks the end of the rainy season.  The colours are so wonderful here, it’s a good sign for the gorgeous weather we are finally enjoying.

A walk along the path for the campers to escape to high ground in case of another Tsunami gives us plenty of shade during the heat of the afternoon.

Viewed from our aft deck whilst sipping sundowners – what a beautiful sunset, with a ketch to set off the picture.

And the full moon rising on the opposite side, perfect calm weather for a night at Rok Nok, with lots of tasty lamb chops to eat up before they go off  and the Tiramisu mousse (was ice-cream) with Pecan Pie, yum!

A dawn departure, no anchor windlass to worry about this time, just drop the mooring!  The weather staying good, with a light N.Easterly which helps us lay the next island group to the N.W.

This fishing boat, anchored off Ko Ha Yai was one of dozens of them that have to be avoided along the way, together with zillions of fishing floats!