Day 8 – Satang Island tour

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One of the squirrels you see at breakfast in Permai.

9am At the boat house.  We join and english family (Matt and Jacky) and their two kids for the 3-in-1 tour.  We start dolphin watching again but this time it’s very successful.  We see many of them in large groups and get some nice photos (as far as possible).
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There are lots of fishermen here and our guide says they don’t mind the dolphins at all:
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We continue up river to go round the island and moor at the village we saw the day before.  We have a short tour.  Lots of wood and a football pitch that disappears under water quite often!
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Funny fishes with long snouts swimming there.  Our guide says swimming here is a bad idea because of the crocks.

Next stop – mangrove forest to spot crocodiles.  We spot a juvenile immediately sliding into the water and then nothing.  Our guide says that with the high tide they are normally at the bottom.
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We carry on via bird island to the Satang island ad anchor next to a rocky shore.  Snorkeling is ok, not the best visibility today, but we see 3x kinds of fish (brown, stripy and spotty with a yellow head).
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We stop off at the beach on Santos where they collect the turtle eggs to protect them and have lunch there.
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 Then it’s back to Permai.  We get the kite out and it flies well with Alex on the rope.
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Just before I want to leave Emma gets hit by a jellyfish.

The lady at the restaurant (remember the pineapple yesterday) hands us over to one of the resort people who gets us a bowl of vinegar and cotton wool.  This works well and Emma spends most of the day dabbing it.

When Emma and I get back, it’s clear that monkeys have been in the cabin.  They have stolen an apple and left one half-eaten in the middle of the floor.  They have been sitting eating on the table, and then on Emma’s bed.  I clean up and Emma insists that we swap beds.

Here is what’t left of the apples – not much!
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