Hahaha yes, I have to first give a shout out to my sister and Fick for picking up on "Operation Koh Sumai" (Meet the Parents). So We awoke Wednesday (18th) with a full day ahead of us. We hopped on our motorbikes and hit the road to go Elephant hunting....just kidding, we were going to be going on a trek with them.
Before setting off we stopped for some lunch and I had the first real solid meal of my trip, the noodle soup with seafood was awesome and I was relieved to actually feel full after finishing a meal for once.
Jack has been designatied the negotiator of the trip thus far so he bargined us onto the elephants for a decent price. I was realy excited to actually be riding in elephant, but the best part was that I got to pilot the elephant back to the "base camp" Bombei was our elephant and she was awesome, I got to feed her some coconut after she crushed it with her foot.
Our guide "Simon" was from North Thailand (chaeng mi) and had been working with elephants for 15 years! He taugh us all about thai elephants and the differences between them and their african cousins.
After the elphants we explored some of the island looking for waterfalls. Jack had a little incident with his bike as he almost rode it off the side of the mountain - he is alive and uninjured so don't fret. We found this semi-private beach where you could hire a longtail boat to take you out to "the five islands" it was pretty incredible and without any other pharangs (tourists/white people) around we really started to realize we were a long way from home. After that we stoped by this ridiculous sand bar that we walked out onto and got some great pictures.
The motorbikes have been invaluable to us, having the freedom to just hop on and go has saved us a lot of money on cabs and such and allowed us to keep exploring the islands.
we swung by our new favorite place for dinner, picked up some singhas for the evening and reflected on the day.
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