Phuket Sea

For all the 4 days and 3 nights we spent at Phuket, only 2 days (or a total of about 6 hours) were spent at the beach baking and splashing about in the sea.

Must say that our experience this time differs plenty from our last one at Redang. For one, we don't really remember the sea being that choppy in Redang. Here, all you need to do is wade in a bit, then let the undercurrent tow you out to sea while the waves knock you down. You don't have to go out far before the waves crest as high as your head.

'Course, there are other dangers closer at hand...the Chief spotted a rusty nail at one point (which we immediately discarded in the bin!), and occasionally there's the plastic bag or other that would brush against our leg making us think of jellyfishes.

Ok, we're making it sound far worse than it actually is. In our experience tho', our entire time in the sea was plain fun fun fun. When you're paddling in the sea, the only thing to do is to choose between going underwater when a wave comes by, or to keep above it. And so we spent goodness knows how long alternating between tanning and paddling, but it was a good amount of time splashing about.

The aftermath? We were so busy playing about that we didn't realize just how much physical exertion was involved until the next morning when we woke up dead tired, as if we just did back-to-back cardio classes!