Beach Days on Koh Panghnan

For our first days on the island Michele booked us a nice bungalow on a hillside resort, where if you were feeling too lazy to walk the flight of stairs to the beach, one could flop into the infinity pool.
Within moments of arrival at Highlife Bungalows, as fast as we could throw our bags on the floor and wiggle into a swim suit, Nick and I were in the cyan currents. We avoided a local octopus and had a good splash. The water was so warm! You could be in there for hours and not get a chill, like a warm bath after a clammy, rainy day.

The next few days were spent almost entirely submerged in water of one form or another. Nick and I discovered an obsession with snorkeling. In fact, mom and I ventured out during a low tide and found ourselves suspended above a vibrant reef. The surface of large coral boulders were bustling with small fish and crabs. Schools of 100s of parrot fish swam below and there were water dwellers of all description. It was like nothing I had ever seen before and needless to say it got me hooked on the aquatic world.

We enjoyed the sunshine in a content daze and lazed around, only Justin was very productive, he spent a day searching for rental houses. We found a nice bungalow just outside a fishing village in the north of the island. Koh Panghnan is only 48 square miles, an easy motorbike ride from north to south. It’s been a busy few days between establishing routines and buying all those little things for around the house that we usually take for granted.
Upon our hasty leave from Bangkok Justin accidentally left his trusty umbrella behind. As anyone who lives in a moist climate knows, this deserves a curse from the weather gods.
It hasn’t stopped raining since we came in on the ferry.
That’s not true, we had the first day here and occasionally showers will relent just long for everyone to get ready to swim, bathing suits on and everything- and then the skies will open up.