The beach and surf

Beach day I woke up feeling pretty good, there was a bit of noise from the Bulgarians in the morning as they struggled to get up for a snorkeling trip, I am not sure how they survived as they still must have been drunk. Meet up with the Aussie girl Liz and a Irish girl Linda down stairs it was off to the beach, we jumped on a local bus and headed over the hill to Patang beach on the West of Phuket Island, really you hardly leave the city, well it’s all one big city really just a couple of hundred meters over some hills where they have not started to build yet.
The beach was a wide expanse of golden sands with hotels and resorts clinging to the beaches edge, it is astonishingly over developed, but with a line of coconut trees there is a little gap from the resorts and hotels which gives the beach some protection from there sight. We settled halfway along the beach which was a few km long. There was surf coming into the bay and it was not long before Liz and I were out trying to catch some waves, Liz’s two was not so good in the surf and end the end she bailed for the shore and some sun time. The looks of the weather heading into the bay I did not think there would be much sun more like rain. I ended up splashing around for a hour before it was time to get out.
The locals had their boat out and were towing people behind in a parachute which looked like good fun, one of the locals would go up with the person but he would just hang on and flip himself up into the wires and guide the parachute along, it all looked extremely good fun. By the time I was out the clouds had blackened over Nongs mothers and rain was starting to sweep across the bay, it was time to make our retreat and head for home. As we left the beach the rain came thick and fast, it did not last too long but we decided to head back to the hostel, which was a good move because more rain came sweeping through, not the best day for the beach.
The rest of the day was spent relaxing and reading my book to pass the day away, I joined in for the Thai style BBQ for dinner put on by our guest house, with no BBQ in sight I am not sure why they call it a BBQ but the food was pretty good and I spent the rest of the night chatting with a group of people out the back and watching the rats scurry back and forth across the lawn.