Day 2 At The Racha

Went snorkelling today at 500 baht per person... only 4 participants signed up for the 1.5 hour trip. Shirlene, me, one middle-aged Asian man (most probably from China from his accent) and his cute little son with rosy cheeks (maybe about 8 years old). Couldn't take photos of the trip cos I didn't brought my digital camera in case the whole gadget got stolen while I'm in the sea (so no pics on the whole trip).

This is the daily program notice-board beside the Water Sports Station (snorkelling is usually at 2pm every weekday)

That hut is the Water Sports Station and the three towel-covered vehicles are the "ATV" (All Terrain Vehicle)

Anyway it was fun... with the very dark Thai guide called "Ming", swimming with the 4 of us in the clear blue sea at the other side of the island.

This is Ming - dunno if he is naturally dark or swim till so dark
(pic taken on our last day at Racha)

Ming brought along a big packet of bread to feed the fishes and I got my right index finger bitten (again.. the 1st was in Redang) by one of the bigger fishes while holding the whole bread in my right hand. It was nice at first... looking at the fishes nibbling off the bread bit by bit... then it became scary when there were sooo many fishes swimming around your hand that you have problems finding it... and then that "blind" fish nibbled hard on my poor finger~ After that I let go of the bread and checked my finger... there was a 2mm cut and I bled (at that time I'm so scared that other fishes would "smell" my blood and came attacking me *haha* guess I watched too many "Jaws" movies).

Err... that small red spot on my finger is the bite from the fish lor...
I know it's abit small and minor, but the main issue is "I'm bitten by a fish!"

Anyway, when it was time to return to the shore, the guide swam back first with the man and his son. The trio were still standing with the lower part of their legs still in the sea and Shirlene and me were like about 50 metres away from them (the sea was at our waist). Suddenly the man vomited a few times (orange colour somemore) into the sea!! OMG... can you imagine how gross it was?! Shirlene and I were stunned and we were like... "damn, now we're coated with the disgusting puke mixed with sea water". Well, the only comforting thing was that we weren't so near to him, so at least the puke wouldn't be so "concentrated" *yucks*. Finally both of us managed to got shore... and we didn't showed any "disgusted" expressions cos the man must have felt embarrassed (hopefully). Yeah... so that was our fun but disgusting Phuket snorkelling trip. onto

Life was so carefree here in Racha... it's all about swimming, reading and purely just relaxing...

Oh~ this is me with the two balls *ahem* which was left there for anyone

This is Shirlene... the better swimmer (but poorer Jenga player *haha*)

Ooh~ this is a sample of how we read our novels by the pool
(she's a better model than me lah *haha*)

I'm gonna try the ATV the next time I visit Racha... cool leh~

Library Lounge

This is the library lounge where people can just lie on the couch to read their novels or magazines indoor (especially when it suddenly rains cos it's just beside the pool). The books were all donated by people from all countries but there's only a handful of English books inside the library (located at the far right inside the glass panel area). There are 2 computers inside the library for all guests to use, and that's the place where I created all my Racha posts *hehe*

For dinner, we had seafood basket for two at 1,700 baht and it was nice (maybe because we were hungry since we didn't eat lunch).

We already ate the two giant prawns on the left side of the basket before we remembered to take a picture of the feast

I love the life here... you guys should come try it out, though it might be slightly expensive to some, but it's worth the money.