We bought tickets from Koh Toa on the night ferry - leaving at 9pm and arrives at 6am. We were told, yes it had sleeping bunks. Now I don't know what you picture when you hear the term night ferry, but I see a fairly modern catarmaran, with bunks instead of seats on the top deck and maybe some seats downstairs... Gee was I a bit wrong.
This rickety old baot was one of the old style ferrys, from the 80s, you know the ones with the singlular V shaped hull.... we were bundled on board to climb upstairs and find a cabin with a 5 foot ceiling and the floor entirely covered in matresses, with a thin gap down the middle to get to the loo. You basicially lie shoulder to shoulder with everyone, very very cosy indeed. And of course it is about a thousand degrees still and every bloody bed is booked.
Josie, some 30 minutes after taking sea sickness tablets, looks in a bit of shock - but was a bit out of it...in fact the sea was flat as a mill pond - but the tablets at least gave her the benefit of half a nights sleep - much less than me - no part in thanks to the yank next to me, who had a chest infection and spent most of the night coughing inbetween cigarettes ...yep, he was a bright one !!
The trip was surprisingly uneventful - especially given Josie was on board and her luck with boats is not good - maybe the drugs interrupted the disaster signals she normally gives off ? Who knows...
When then entered a dream like, jet lagged state of travel for the next 5 hours while getting on an aircon minbus to head down to trang...where the driver had the bloody car temperature set right between cool and hot - where you kind of sweat in spurts. The 2 kids in the seat behind played "who can make the most high pitched sound" preventing any sleep and causing minor bleeding from the ears....seriously, I hope when Josie and I have kids we are blessed with the selective deafness of you parents out there. Do they give you some kind of special ear plugs or something?
Arriving at Trang, near midday it was a 1000 degrees... someone had smuggled bricks into our backpacks and we were too take to get the ferry out to Ko Mook and return to island life very quickly... We were hurting, and Trang offers too many decisions on where to go... In the end, Josie, blessed with more hours sleep made the call... We head straight to Ko Lipe tomorrow and find a nice airconditioned hotel. Now that is a plan Stan would be proud of !!
So we got room service and bunkered down in the blissful airconditioned room and watched movies and dozed all afternoon and evening. The next morning another bus and ferry would take us to Ko Lipe - one of the least touristy and furtherest south of Thailands islands...
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