Koh Chang beach bums

By the time we got up today (by that I mean when Georgie got up) Toby and his parents had already left for Bangkok. We said our goodbyes last night because they both had to be up before 8 so we left them to it…
The last two days though have been spent wisely, on monday we took Tobys parents all around the island stopping at all the viewpoints and fun places we had been and a few we hadn’t including a stop in the jungle to pick bananas and grapefruits from trees and eat them with a pen knife, Ray Mears would be so proud!!! Then that evening they had a party at tree house from what I remember so we went there for food and stayed all night getting stuck into the buckets with our new friends Jason, Heather and Cedric on the water recovering from the night before. We went back to Tobys wicked balcony for a smoke and a drunken Philisophical debate and of course ends up in me and Toby ganging up on Georgie just to at least try and be a little bit right. But she knows her shit and as usual put us both in our place and we headed home to leave Toby to another night under the stars in his mighty hammock.
3am… The heavens open and do so for hours accompanied by some almighty thunder and lighting…
The next morning we get woken by Toby knocking on our door… seems hes been up for a while something to do with heavy rain and hammocks!? Anyway we go for breakfast at Treehouse and then with no plans decide to just poodle about the place on our peds looking for cool stuff.. we find some tracks that lead up high into the hills then just stop for no reason and a fallen bridge across a river, which Toby naturally has to attemp to cross an a moped and in true Toby style he does it with ease, bouncing the poor little thing across the river on lumps of broken tarmac and wet pebbles throwing water into the air with the back wheel and stinking the place up with tyre smoke trying to get up the other side… It was good fun to watch.
We felt satisfied with our adventure and went for a sunset beachside massage. Its a hard life.
We went for dinner at a flashy place on the corner of the beach but we were only people in and half way through eating they locked up and went home leaving us to it, we didnt mind though. Then off to Treehouse and we met up with our new friends again and got stuck in… Tobys dad had to take his mum home after a good number of buckets and this time we left with them deciding a bit of sleep would be good for everyone.
The following day we were woken up again by Toby and again went off to Treehouse for breakfast…its so cheap and nice its the only real choice! We had made plans the day before while exploring to pay 150b to get into a big flash resort called Koh Chang Grand Lagoon in its own entire bay on the south of the island just around from lonely beach, once inside we took a spin up to a waterfall on the grounds and on the walk up to it Toby nearly stood on a snake which made him jump out of his skin, for the next 100 metres we all watched every single footstep! Once at the fall we all stripped to our swimmers and went for a refreshing natural shower on the rocks blindly hoping that just above the waterfall there was nothing but jungle, i.e. a little village or resort leaving little treats in the falling water in the shape of mars bars…you know what I mean.
That done we pressed on and explored the rest of the resort… Its was deserted! we were the only guests and it felt alot like a tropical centre parcs… It had big fake elephants everywhere and all the bungalows were surrounded by water and called houseboats, naturally Georgie fell in love with the tackiness and thought it was amazing but I couldnt help feeling it was all very weird, all that aside the beach it was all perched on was beautiful and just hammered home how unneccessary the gordy resort was. We had a swim in the calm warm water before heading to a beach bar for our free snack which came with the entry fee, our choices were coconut cakes, jelly cubes, what looked like frog spawn and they were only the things I could identify!! We ate our coconut cakes which were of course measely and ordered some lunch before making very good use of a deserted swimming pool with its own bar.
By now time was getting on so we razzed back to lonely beach to take tobys moped back and then Georgie and I had another sunset beachside massage before dinner and a fire show at Nature beach which was pretty damn good and lasted well over an hour at which point we said our goodbyes to Toby and his parents and turned in with another storm looming…