Koh Samui day 3

The weather is still disappointing – monsoon winds and grey skies. We spend some time exploring more of Mae Nam and in particular the old village which takes in the few streets that run between the main road and the beach. Here there are a some shops, internet cafes, travel agents, bars, restaurants and a brightly decorated Chinese temple with the usual dragons scaling the supporting pillars – but hardly any people. We take a stroll along the windswept beach dodging the surf and checking out the beach front accommodation. There are some very upmarket resorts built out onto the beach as well as the occasional cluster of beach ‘huts’. We check out a few of the latter, but none are as well positioned or as picturesque as Moonhut. One just down the beach from us has been severely battered by the storms leaving a couple of the huts looking a bit precarious perched on a thin strip of land between the sea and the rising river waters behind. We decide to stay put at Moonhut until the weekend and then, if the weather has improved, we may go to the island of Pha Ngan which is a 30 minute ferry journey to the north of Koh Samui. Apparently, on a clear day it is possible to see it from Mae Nam (unfortunately we can’t verify that!). However our plans are thwarted as when we return to book a further three nights we find that Moonhut is fully booked tomorrow. Oh dear, looks as though we prevaricated too long and will be moving sooner than we thought, but to where….