Rain Rain go away

Another wet morning but we didnt let that slow us down too much, we had a plan to head over to the east side for the evening for dinner and to catch the fire show, so the day was spent reading and dozing by the beach all very lazy before grabbing a baht bus and bouncing on over to the east side where we had a lovely seafood dinner many beers and watched six young fellas two of which were only 12 spinning and throwing fire staffs and hopping on each others shoulders, one cockey little chap fell over in the sea and the added weight of his trousers made them fall down whilst he had another lad on his shoulders both were swirling their flaming battons and neither of them stopped…
The next and last full day on Ko Samet was all set for adventure, we hired two quad bikes and set off around the island on the wet and fucking bumpy dirt tracks, I thought that our quad had squeaky breaks when we first set off by i later discovered that is was just Mandy shreiking at the roads ahead and clinging onto Jo so tight his head might pop off, but after a mile or so she seemed alot more at ease (not that she had much choice) we went right to the southern end of the island where its mostly gated off by a posh resort then headed back stopping at beaches along the way whenever we saw something we liked. As we pulled up to the first one we found loads of shacks under a thin cover of jungle leading out onto a pristine and deserted bay of white sand and crystal clear water and just as we did the weather broke and the sun beamed down on us whilst we had some mama cups and beers and paddled about in the sea to was the thick red mud off…
The rain started again but only very lightly so we moved on to the next beach and the next beach and the next… until we were on the east side where we had hired the quads from and before we returned them had 5 slices of assorted cakes and coffee which all went down alot better than the mud being thrown up from the quad tires.
Back at our resort on the west we got showered off and Georgie, Jo and I went for a massage while Mandy sat and read and played with some cheerful little children, it was a damn fine massage and all the hard work of the day had given us all a pretty big appettite so we sat down for our last feast on the island together and then sliped to the bar next door to watch a thai cabaret singer (who Jo loves )do his thing on his piano, we had caught the piano man most nights if only for a drink or two but he was really good to listen to and pretty funny at times when he didnt get the words right… “i feel snice” “so snice”
The morning we have to head back to Bangkok… Is beating sunshine the best we have seen since Jo and Mandy arrived. We have our breakfast down near the beach and go for a stroll along it afterwards while waiting fo the speedboat to arive and whisk us away from paradise…