Despite all the arrival of additional Thai Navy warships, we decided to go ashore. 

I hope they let us leave later today… 

The tender takes a while since it is a very shallow port area. 

We found a good bus with a pretty cool local driver. 

And paid extra for some nice business class seats on the bus with plenty of legroom. 

After a 30 minute drive, we stopped at a small coocunt farm.

We needed a bathroom break and this is the best place on the island as they have the higher end restrooms for Westerners (tourists). 

The coconut farm is pretty much run by foreign monkeys as they are willing to work at much lower wages than locals… Did you see him up at the top? He waves hi!