Tag: island
2009
05.24
Turtle Island

It’s a whole nother world down here Koh Tao means “Turtle Island” but we haven’t seen any turtles in the three days we’ve been here. Zoe did see a large school of fish on the pier getting off the boat when we got to this diver’s paradise on Thursday: “Honey, look at the fish!” Steve: [...]

2009
05.20
This Place is Great

Our guard dog We left Bangkok on the 3rd, Sunday, on a 7:00 pm bus and were waiting for our second bus at 5:30 in the morning over coffee. Once we got to Pha Ngan island, pronounced, “pahn gahn”, we got a free ride to the Haad Gruad resort priced at 300 baht per night. [...]

2008
12.19
Goodbye, Sweet Beach

We will miss you Well, Steven's visa expires tomorrow so we have to leave this beautiful bungalow on the beach with the refreshing outdoor shower; and, we have decided to head to Cambodia to try and find some volunteer opportunities where we can teach English and practice our natural building techniques that we learned in [...]

2008
12.08

Lonely Elephant Sunsets We took a double-decker bus about five hours east to the gulf for 600 baht ($18) and then a short ferry ride to Ko Chang, elephant island; one of the largest islands in Thailand, nearly 30km long and almost 14 km wide. The west coast is lined solid with bungalows and resort [...]