We
had a quiet New Year's Day in Patong and then this morning moved ten
miles souh to the quieter Nai Harn bay. Our cruising guide
suggests there is room for 100 boats here and that it's a traditional
gathering place for yachties at Christmas time. Post Christmas and
we estimate there were perhaps thirty boats in total, a wide sandy
bay offering good protection from winds from NW through NE to SE.
There's less development here, plenty of tourists but certainly not as
many hotels and bars.
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| anchorage |
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| sunset at Nai Harn |
The
dinghy dock is unusual. It's a floating pontoon secured to bare
rocks by lines ashore and to reach the restaurant it belongs to you
walk over the rocks and over bamboo walkways linking boulders. It
was built by a Swiss man who owns the restaurant. Quite rightly he
asks anyone wanting to use his dock to buy a drink at his bar or pay
a nominal fee of £2 which is fair. Our alternative would have been
to beach the boat on the sand.
Nai
Harn has retained it's sleepiness. In the high season, which we're
in now the bar restaurants extend their eating areas out under the
trees to join the parade of t shirt, sunglasses, souvenir and handbag
stalls set out to sell their goods.
We're
only visiting for one night this time as we need to return to Chalong
to organise a rental car and start working our way through the list
of repair man and suppliers we need to visit.
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