Sea fishing

Yesterday I was invited to go fishing by Pae, one of the workers from Fevrier Resort. His english isn't great, but I understand this is his first boat since the tsunami took his last one. We left at about 7:30pm once it was dark, down to the beach across the road where his boat lives during the day. Him and Peter (who despite the name is 100% Thai) attached the small 2-stroke engine to the back of the boat and pushed it to the waters edge. We were probably a good 1/2 mile out to sea, which felt a lot when sat in a boat barely big enough for the three of us and in the dark. It must have been begineers luck because I caught the first fish, and later on managed to catch a barracuda! I couldn't believe how strong the barracuda was pulling, I thought it was a shark or something, although he was still a fairly decent size. I'm not sure on the english names of the fish but we also caught 'tamat', 'sicaou' and 'khao'. At one point, Pae thought he had caught a fish and started pulling in his line, only to find it was a big blue crab, which he put straight in the boat in front of me. Obviously the crab was going crazy and starting running around the tiny boat with its claws up. I jumped back in shock and nearly toppled the boat, bringing in loads of water on board. Luckily Pae and Peter found it hilarious, and were pleased to have caught a blue crab as they are expensive in Thailand.

Not long left in Ko Lanta now, so tomorrow we are off on a trip around the '4 islands' of Ko Lanta to do a bit of sight seeing and snorkelling. I don't have my waterproof digital camera because I broke it in Vietnam, but hopefully I'll get a few good pics above water with my SLR.