11 November Pure House, Kraburi
PC with light shower midday. Strava: 24.5km,
6.8 km/hour. Muesli breakfast with sticky rice, yogurt, bread. Put in at Ban
Hat Chik. Many birds including herons, swiftlets, and kingfishers. Also roadside
houses for swiftlets. Lots of mangrove palms and a flowering tree in water. Oil
palms and rubber plantations plus small jungle trees and sparse giant tree survivors.
Villages on both sides. At 11km we stopped at Ban Thab Li, famous for steamed buns.
While there Coleman and Sue passed on tandem from Cha Am to Phuket. Pulled kayaks
in at Kraburi, then another great meal at riverside restaurant, including a tofu
mushroom lemon grass soup and a caramelized tofu cashew. At 4pm we drove to
Phra Khayang Cave, and I walked the elevated concrete path above wetlands around
the mountain. Other 4 climbed in the cave up stairs and rope to another cave, but
entrance looked difficult and didn't go inside. They came out soon after I completed
the loop and monkey gauntlet. People setting up a stage, perhaps for Loy Krathong.