Not Published Fast and Furious Transfer

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Breakfast today was coffee provided by the hotel plus our last remaining banana and oats. We were at the beach for 8:30 am, queued for our boarding pass and climbed on to the big speed boat. It was completely packed with tourists , all European.

Off we went at break neck speed. It was a little bumpy as we rounded the island and lost our shelter from the land. The rest of the journey went smoothly, well kind of. The speed boat and the ocean bumped us around a lot. We saw lots of the other Thai islands as we passed and a number of sailing boats enjoying the beautiful weather.

We arrived in Koh Lanta and docked at the jetty. We waitied a while for our pick up and delivery to our hotel. Well, it wasn't really a hotel but a cute little hut amongst the trees.


The bags were dropped off and we headed out to find some food. It didn't take long before we were sat in a small restaurant enjoying a tasty meal. Once we had finished eating we walked down to the beach and along the sand. We didn't walk for too long as it was baking hot. We returned to our hotel for a shower and to cool down. We have been putting our water bottles in the fridge so the water is nice and ice cold!

Once we had been sat in the shade for a while we went back out to find dinner. In fact we ended up at the same restaurant we tried earlier. We delayed our departure as the rain started to fall. As it eases we popped into Lotus's across the street and found some yellow sticker kids yoghurt for 10 Baht so that was dessert sorted!

End of the day. Zzzzz




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