Swimming in Dark Emerald Caves in Koh Mook

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  Koh lanta, Thailand
Sunday, March 29, 2009

I moved in the giant hay bungalows with my new friend Marita in Koh Lanta, this place has a very cool vibe, and its run by a very sweet lady boy, and I'm pretty sure they do not have a first aid kit here , so its a good thing my small tragedy happened at the fancy resort. We had a very chill day and a great dinner at a cool local beach restaurant down the way on long beach where we are staying. The restaurants here on the beach are so cool, they have inviting private open air cabanas and tables built on lifted platforms filled with cushions to sit on and candlelight to eat by, so romantic.! That night there was party at the beach bar by our bungalows...a real rage party. What is it with these backpacker places and their all night loud parties? Don't people come on Holiday anymore just to listen to Nora Jones and just relax with the sound of the waves to put them to sleep? This one went really late, and Marita and I had a morning snorkeling trip planned. Thailand isn't one of those places that has noise ordinance that shuts down the music so that people close by can get a good night sleep, I can see some impatient New Yorker walking up to the beach bar demanding them to turn it down.....I have never seen that happen, not that Ive even come across another American on my journeys here so far.
The snorkel trip was fun, always nice to go on journeys and discover new places. Our group on the boat was small, and we even parked the boat and had lunch on the beach at a private island. On one of our snorkeling trips , my dear sweet new friend Marita who loves diving, animals, and really appreciates and respects the ocean and all its lovely creatures , noticed that some of the plastic from the tops of the water bottles had fallen( lets hope, not thrown) into the water. This garbage is so damaging to the ocean life, and can actually kill the fish if they eat it, Just before leaving our snorkeling spot , Marita dived into the water and collected all the plastic. People from the boat stared at her and probably thought she was being silly, I thought it was beautiful...:-) I really like my new friend.
Next we went to the Emerald cave in Koh Mook, a private island . You had to swim thru the cave to get thru it to a private beach and lagoon. The cave was long and dark, about 80 meters ! Our "guide", I say that loosely since its really just a worker from the boat....had us hold onto the back of each other and sort of form a long chain and we swam thru the cave in the pitch dark...only our "guide" had one small flashlight guiding us from ahead...."Don't touch the sides of the caves! They are very sharp!" Yes they were , I touched them several times not being able to see anything and loosing my grip of the back of the person I was trying to hold onto as I swam thru. I did make it to the other side and the private lagoon was beautiful. One of the scariest things I have ever done, and if I would of cut my finger swimming thru a dark emerald cave it would of been alot more interesting story than my razor one :)

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walkway at lanta maria	our bungalow	the"resort"	marita on our deck
lots of cute dogs!	dinner on the beach	tables in the sand	going to shore for lunch
our snorkel boat	beautiful water	pretty!	marita going in!
almost got it!	my lovely friend marita	by emerlald cave	sunet tonight!
koh look	dinner on the beach, marita	marita holding up the sun	path behind our bungalow leading to the bar
what the bar looked like the next morning	bottles everywhere!	i heard they ran out of beer that night

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