Back Online…Sort Of

I’m trying this post to see if it works, I seem to have lost access to my previous posts so keeping my fingers crossed. Also please stick with me if I am repeating something already shared.

After our harrowing ferry boat day we made it to Koh Lipe and to our beach “bungalow” late at night. The gal greeted us, showed us our room, handed over the keys and told us to check-in in morning. I’m pretty sure no one checks in that late as the fairies stop arriving around three in the afternoon.Lipe has no cars only motorbikes, bicycles and foot traffic.

The beach area is beautiful and the snorkeling is awesome. The tide goes out in the evening bringing the coral nearly to the surface. So reef fish, anemones, huge pillow like starfishes, seahorses, small and medium sized giant clams of all colors, anemones and many types and colors of coral all within arms reach.

In places there were many long spiny sea urchins with iridescent blue spots on them. At night these dots washed up on the shore and glowed this beautiful iridescent blue.

We ate at small local restaurants away from the beach. The first evening we met locals that had lived there from 10-16 years. They showed us pictures of the island before it was developed. The main walking path that runs from one side of the island to the other was not there 12 years ago. Now there are restaurants, shops, tourist information booths, bars, grocery stores, 7-Eleven’s and massage shops.