Monkey Monkey Monkey

The first morning at Rocky Resort, we heard high pitched whooping from the hill behind our bungalow. I thought first of cranes, but the cries came from a pair of singers, and they fed off each other in a spiraling howling chorus. Bella remarked they reminded her of the gibbons at the National Zoo in DC. Clever. We climbed the hill to investigate. The owners of the resort above us (Jamakhiri) had found four baby monkeys (gibbons as it turns out!) when they started building, and created a sprawling enclosure for them.



Open Water Team
Our open water diver's group celebrated finishing the course at Tong's a local Thai restaurant. Our instructor James (on my left) got sick the day we were supposed to start the advanced open water course, so we've started the course with another instructor. This morning blessed us with our best dive yet at Chumphon Pinnacle, with much improved visibility compared with our earlier dives. We sunk down to 30 meters to do some exercises (i.e. prove we wouldn't get nitrogen narcosis.) Zoom -- four grey reef sharks circled by, patrolling the base of the coral formation. The largest I'll bet weighed more than me and must have been 8 feet long!