Chillaxing on the Island

Up about 8:30, awesome sleep. Mostly sunny this morning!

I went for a quick swim, then for breakfast. Erin joined me. After breakfast, we walked down the road and rented motorbikes for the day to see the island. We scooted around the island. I found a villa resort being built, you can buy your own personal villa. Not sure how much. It had a swimming pool. Also here was the Urban Cafe and Bakery, and the sign said "Calgary, Canada". There was a white guy (Kevin) with a Dell notebook, we started chatting and told me the story about the Urban Cafe. When the tsunami hit, a friend/partner of his was on Koh Jum. No one died, but lots of destruction and ruined businesses. His partner went back to Canada (Canmore) and raised $900,000. He went back to Koh Jum and rebuilt the Urban Cafe in the town for the family he knew that had lost everything. He then built this new Urban Cafe and Bakery along the beach and gave it to the family, clear. Apparently this story was in the Calgary Herald at one point. Then the villa's started being built. Hence, why the sign says Calgary, Canada.

I bought some muffins and continued back to the hut. Along the way, also found a Rotary Club of Fort MacMurray, Canada building. How odd.

Back to the bungalows about 1:00, I went snorkelling and saw a moray eel. We went for lunch when we saw a bug thunderstorm rolling in.

Most of the people staying at the bungalows are older folks (50+).

Thunderstorm was awesome, lighting and loud claps of thunder, rain pouring down. It rained for about 2 hours, we read in the restaurant.

After the rain stopped, we took the motorbikes to town in search of a deck of playing cards. Erin saw a restaurant that said they had fresh lobster, so we went there for supper. Alas, they had no lobster, so she had crab and I had a fish fillet.

We stopped by the bakery on the way back and Erin bought some cookies, then we dropped off the motorbikes and went to Fu Bar, a small beach bar, for four drinks. This is the extent of the night life on Koh Jum, a small beach bar playing mellow music, listening to the sound of the waves crashing into the beach. Ahhhhhh................... We talked about ghosts and freaked ourselves out for the walk back to the bungalows.

About 9:00pm, we walked back to the bungalows in the pitch black. I didn't have any torches with me this time. As we were walking along the small road to our bungalows, off the main road, a motorcycle starts coming up behind us, and Erin started getting freaked. It was pitch black, we couldn't see anything, and someone is coming after us. He ended up turning off before he got to us.

Back at the bungalows, I went for a night swim, awesome phosphorescence. As you swim and move around, everything glows all around. If you stop and look into the water, you can sometimes see the phosphorescence of fish as they swim around.

Read and went to bed.