Thai Low Season
The great thing about low season is that it’s quiet and prices plummet. The bad thing, no one is around and it’s low season for a reason. On the Andaman Coast, this means storms which also means no diving. Had we elected to go to ultra-touristy islands like Phuket or Ko Samui we would have had the chance, but in Khao Lak there aren’t even boats in the water.
We spent the rest of our time in Thailand just relaxing and taking the short walk to town at least twice a day for meals. The beach was a two minute walk and great for spotting sea debris. Heather collected a lot of sea glass and we also saw a door knob, the ocean keeps throwing out stuff from the tsunami six years ago. Oh yeah, this place is infamous for the Boxing Day tsunami that got world wide attention in 2004. Since the tsunami destroyed everything, everything now is six years old or less, nothing dingy here. We took a short taxi ride to see a land-locked police boat that was washed ashore, but we couldn’t go inside it.
Heather went swimming for the first time in the Indian Ocean and was also stung by a jellyfish for the first time in her life. The good news is that after about two hours the swelling and redness was completely gone. Heather also got a little stomach bug, hopefully not from her own cooking. So it turned out okay that we missed diving, we may have missed it anyway.
After six days of sleeping in late, swimming, drinking fresh juice and eating plenty of Pad Thai and spring rolls, we are on our way to Kolkata (Calcutta). There we’ll get to see the monsoon, and India’s low season.