and hash browns, and a new omelet guy...
We again stuffed ourselves.
Our plan for the day was to bike to the farther fishing village, Lontha, and so we got a bike for Dana and headed out. The road was paved, and flat, and the weather was perfect, so the ride was quite pleasant. We rode to and through Lontha to the end of their jetty, where they were unloading a night's catch.
We wanted to get up to see the Buddha that overlooks the bay, and so we inquired our way to the beach, parked the bikes and set out on foot. Lotta things to see, hear and smell in a fishing village in the morning.
These friendly ladies appeared to be cleaning nets.
The beach had a muddy feel, but the walking was fine and the shells were plentiful and beautiful, in fact, we believe we found our best shell ever, and I did a video of it, in case we can't get it back home intact.
We managed to find our way up to the Buddha statue...
which had some nice animal figures, like these two crocs...
in front of two dragons, who lined the stairway and snaked across part of it.
On the way back down the hill these little novice guys gave us a gratuitous display of their grasp of English.
Back on the beach I led Dana to my sketching spot,...
aptly named "Pleasant View", where we enjoyed yet another tropical fruit juice.
We spent the afternoon lazing on the beach and swimming a bit. I tried a little body surfing, but mainly only managed to get a touch of dehydration, that I began to feel after we biked to a restaurant, called "The Best One" (recommended to us by a hotel receptionist when we asked which restaurant was the best one - ya gotta love the literality of the namings) which really was quite good.
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