An early start was in order to catch the boat to Ko Phagnan the home of the full moon party we checked out and decided to walk the 300m to the docks in stead of waiting for the taxi / pickup truck. We arrived near the docks and had a traditional Ko Tao breakfast of Coffee, Bacon, Sausage and eggs.... Sameep had some vegetarian thing... leaves and some berries I think. Before long, some searching, a little confusion that is expected with every journey we were on the boat and heading to Ko Phangan. The boat was full which was a good sign... What was a bad sign was that it was full when it arrived to pick us up with people evacuating the island... Sameep and I were slightly anxious. The crossing was interesting, we opted for the air conditioned room, however, even sat at the front of the cabin where the blowers were as powerful as an asthmatic blowing at you through a drinking straw. After sitting there and getting used to the gentle waft of hot breath in my face, a member of the crew came to the room and started taking 20 baht (40p) for the added comfort of the waftage... Cheeky turds. We headed off out to the deck to catch some sea breeze and as it turns out, to get sea water and rain sprayed in our faces. Not the most comfortable crossing I have ever had, but it was interesting.
On arrival in Ko Phagnan a taxi took us and about 4 women to various hotels hostels and crapholes along the coast. Eventually we arrived at "The Hostel" we were about 20m from the beach and pretty close to the epicentre of where all the action was going to take place in 4 days time. After putting our bags in the room, a 12 bed dorm, and starting up the A/C we headed to the bar and had a chat with the landlady to find out what the score was, where to go and what to look out for. We spotted an advert on the door before we left the room offering "special shakes". Sabina, our landlady made us one, advising that if it was your first time, it might be be worth sharing one. We did... nothing happened. We walked along what appeared to be the nicest beach so far, big rolling waves and pretty clear water, there was about 30 people on the entire beach which stretched for over 500m. There was a few duchbags kicking about but nothing too bad. It was going to be a quiet night, we had a candle light meal on the beach, like a couple of bum bandits, and after a cheeky bucket of alcohol we were back in our room. Oddly enough a guy that moved in a few hours after we had arrived hadn't returned to his bed all night... in fact when we woke the next morning he still wasn't there...He had obviously pulled one of the mannitees that was sunbathing on the beach... Good lad.
Sameep enjoying a rude joke or some 'in joke' that I can't share with you all.
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