New Year 2016 Nai Harn

last beer of the year

Elephant temple on the Prom Thep headland

café des Wheels - fast food Thai style

From the brief, and wet stop, in Chalong we had another good sail in the strong winds around the bottom of Phuket island to the popular yachties bay, Nai Harn. Usually protected from the prevalent north easterlies we were still kopping 15 to 20 knots over the deck at anchor and more wet dinghy rides in to the dinghy dock at the yacht club. We like Nai Harn for it's sandy beach, pretty coves and the best French boulangerie on the island. It would be very rude to visit NH and not visit the bakery for a coffee and baguettes.

Happy New Year

Amy had a hankering for a Margarita and the fee for using the yacht club dock was 100% refundable against drinks at the bar so would have been rude not to have an end of year treat. This is me with a Margarita and David with his girly Pina Colada. It's his favourite cocktail – really.
There is one five star hotel over looking the bay and they had a New Year party – dinner with unlimited drinks for a mere £180 per head! Looked fantastic, but not for poor cruisers. For our NYE celebration we had sunset drinks on a private yacht, a wonderful dinner at a local restaurant over looking the same bay and returned to the private yacht for champagne (with thanks to AndrAmy for bringing) while having the perfect position to watch all the fireworks at midnight.