Happy Kings Beach

Hi, it's me! Koko Mo N'Kye. I bet you thought I'd gone away! I'm at Fisherman's Village in Haad Jao Samran (Happy Kings Beach) on the Gulf of Thailand.

Here I am with my doppelganger, the other Koko.
I'm in my Joe Cool pose. Dude.

I'm blue but I'm a GREEN monkey too! DON'T throw trash in the sea. It hurts marine life and even enters the food chain.

I saw this lady on the beach skimming the sand with a scoop for tiny (2 cm.) wedge clams. She will pickle them to eat with rice.

Beyond the breakwater, the clouds billow ominously. The rainy season means the weather is unpredictable. One day may be wet and hot, another day dry and still.

From the majestic to the minuscule. I saw this tiny creature (about 7 cm) , a mudskipper, hopping about on the surface of the water in the shallows. Like a bridge between land and sea, it breathes air on land but in the water it can breathe through its gills like other fish.

Fishing boat. The red flags are attached to poles which have floats on them. They mark the position of the fisherman's nets in the sea.

Lowtide at morning

Fishing boat 2

Spirit house. The Thai believe that there are spirits everywhere. So it is always best to be nice to them.

We asked the bellman at Fisherman's Village for a recommendation for dinner. He suggested this little place up the road apiece where we could order seafood, of course. Underneath a tarp held up with bamboo poles we sat at a table on the sandy beach and ate and ate.

My family

 






We ate our way back to Bangkok. We stopped at Daeng's in Mae Klong, Samut Songkram. We ate boiled shrimp, sour and hot fish soup, curried crab, and morning glory with chilies.

Until next time. So long!