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22 January 2017

1 January 2017 Christmas and New Year in Nai Harn

This year we spent Christmas and New Year in Nai Harn. We arrived on 23 December and were one of about a dozen sail boats. On NYE we were one of 45 boats.
The yacht club dinghy dock is shorter than last year due to heavy south westerly surf which broke the end off and washed away the walkway built over the rocks to steps. The new manager of the yacht club told us the surf had dropped away in the week before we arrived so we were fortunate with our timing and being able to use the dock when we wanted to go ashore.
Nai Harn is a popular holiday beach and seems especially popular with Russian tourists based on the high number of people we heard speaking Russian, menus where Russian is the first translation from Thai and English the third. Even at the French bakery the order is French, Russian, English. Oh la la! But the best breakfast was the full English.
It was a relaxing week, watching boats coming and going, trips ashore, renting a motorbike to go into Chalong and up to Boat Lagoon marina where there are two very good chandleries. I set up my sewing machine and ran up some new side sunshades. David ticked a few boat jobs off his to do list and suddenly we came to the end of 2016 in the same bay we began the year.

On NYE we ate smoked salmon and roast duck and even managed to stay awake until midnight. It was a beautiful evening to sit on deck and watch the fireworks, more chaos than display but lots of fun, and toast each other a Happy New Year. Where will be be in twelve months? Possibly South Africa if the plan goes to plan.

1 comment:

  1. Response from Sea Turtle for question re Galle or Trinco: Galle is the best if wanting to continue west after. Trincomalee is further up the coast and subject to NE monsoon weather at this time of year.

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