Immediately following the King's Cup we sailed Basanti up to a bay near the Phuket airport for the arrival of our friend Jane from Madison, Wisconsin. This was a complete change of pace from the intense racing every day and nightly post race parties to relaxation with the focus on scenery.
We were able to visit a good selection of islands up in the bay. The locations near Phuket were very busy with day trip boats and kayaks full of tourists but early mornings and evenings (when the day trippers were finished) were sublime.
We enjoyed exploring these islands in the dinghy. Kayaks would have been easier to paddle through the tunnels, but no one was out there renting kayaks.
Thai fishermen are busy in these waters and occasionally came alongside Basanti and offered to sell fresh prawns, yum!
Above is a tunnel through to the island's interior that we were able to go through at low tide. Below is one of the tunnels we paddled through...have to make sure the tide isn't coming in too quickly or we'd end up stranded in there until the tide went out again.
That is only a small selection of our photos from this beautiful area. Jane stayed with us for this portion of our journey, plus a visit to Krabi and then south to several more Thai islands and then finally we travelled down peninsular Malaysia to Singapore with Jane. More on these travels in another post.
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