Hi Kitty, by the time you read this you will be there in Phuket, anyway hope you have a marvellous time.

You got the directions to the Aussie Bar I see, Greg and his business partner, both WA expats, made the conscious decision to make it a “sports” bar, and their staff keep strict control over which of the locals come in so exclude hawkers, timeshare touts and bar girls, which makes it family friendly, mind you, you have to love your sport and it does get a bit noisy, but it’s all good fun.

As you saw we didn’t get to go snorkelling, however I spent some time with a couple of locals casting their nets for fish from the rocks on the MBR beach at low tide, which is was for most mornings we were there, which was interesting, mind you the fish the caught were very small.

Unfortunately the young Thai I spoke to had little English so I could not work out why some fish he kept and some of the same size, about twice that of our goldfish, he tossed back, they all looked the same to me?

One thing though the tide comes in at almost the same rate as that in Broom, one minute I was taking photos of fish and crabs in one of the rock pools next minute I looked back to the beach and most of my stepping stones had vanished below the water, I had to hightail it back as best I could.

I got enough to do an article on Phuket, but mostly on the Touristy things, I will however go back sometime in the future and do an “off the beaten track” type of article, but will do a lot more research beforehand next time.

Regards, Bruce