Ko Bulon Le - Thailand

Ko Bulon Le – Small island with fishing villages and rubber plantations. Finding a sheltered anchorage proved interesting with the prevailing north east monsoon winds. The night we arrived the anchorage was very calm and we all had a good nights sleep. It rained in the morning, we played Banana-gram – a type of scrabble. Andrea won most of the games. We went ashore wondered through the rubber plantations and had lunch at one of the quaint resort restaurants. After lunch we stopped for a beer at the Marina resort on the way back to the boat. We bought some squid in the fishing village and cooked up salt and pepper squid with a cucumber salad for dinner. During the night the anchorage became so rough with the increased swell that at 4.00am we left to head north. I enjoy sailing at night, this was a new experience for Elad and Andrea. It was also there first experience of sailing without the motor. They enjoyed the relative quiet, with wind blowing in the rigging and the water lapping against the hull. This was short lived as by 9.00am we were back motor sailing again. There not being enough wind to make a decent passage to Ko Muk/Mook. We dropped anchor at midday in the sheltered bay on the south west of the island.