Hey fellow travelers! With a lot of excitement I’m sharing the first bit of our Koh Lipe trip today. Oh boy every time we come here I’m more and more amazed by the beauty of this place. This time we had our drone with us so the videos and photos from above give an extra perspective I never had until now.
Arrival and Kayaking at Sunrise Beach
The travel here is pretty long. We’ve done it a few times already and this time around was a bit better because we had someone to pick us up from the airport with a car, instead of getting a shuttle bus straight to the pier. Our group this time was a bit bigger - we had Nat’a dad with us and two of his friends. One of the friends lives near Khao Lak and drove to pick us up from the airport. Our flight was a pretty early one so we had plenty of time to stop for food and coffee on the way to the pier.
On our way from Hat Yai pier to the island - which takes about 1.5-2 hours with a speed boat - we stopped at an island for 10 minutes to explore. That was a new thing and glad we did. The place was simply amazing. A long beach line leading towards a small rock tunnel. It is said that the couples that go through the other side of it would get married in the near future. I was wondering why no one was going through it.. 😃
After our arrival at the hotel, we quickly left our stuff and headed towards sunrise beach for some kayaking. I decided I would be the one documenting the whole thing instead of participating and i’m glad I did. The bird eye view from the drone is really something else around these parts.
There was a tiny island with a small beach on it in the distance. The plan was for the kayakers to get there in about 20 minutes. Plenty or time for me to explore around and capture them paddling.
Here's the kayaking destinations from all angles. If you look closely you can see the two kayaks on the little coast in this last photo.
The water around the island is quite shallow and Lipe is known for being the island with the clearest waters in Thailand (or so people say). These two things combined makes the corals underneath pop so well even deeper in the sea. The water all around is bright emerald-turquoise color. It is one of the most beautiful things to see and I don’t think I can ever get tired of this sight.
Suppose this was my kayak. The three they gave us were pretty much the same. I quite liked the color. I like the yellow color of them. It popped quite nicely on the photos, contrasting with the bluish waters.
And here's the returning kayak champion. Nat isn't used to kayaking without me I guess. Usually I'm the hard worker with the paddling and she had to do quite a bit more here. Have to say I'm proud she made it! :)
From here we went straight to dinner. I was starving so bad by the time we actually got to the hotel. The rest of the night was quite uneventful. We spent the rest of it at the hotel restaurant looking at the sunset. After that we went by the pool connected to our rooms and had a night dip for awhile before going to bed.
With this the first day on Lipe ended. The next one was quite exciting and exhausting at the same time. We spent the whole day on a boat exploring the surrounding islands and snorkeling around the reefs. I have so many underwater photos and videos as well as more drone shots. This time around we'll definitely make a nicely edited traveling video. The gimble was finally calibrated as it should be and the camera's screen was fixed. Got plenty of good drone video shots as well so it will only take some time now to go through and edit it all. Hope I manage to edit all the photos soon and share with you here! Until then have a good start of the week and I'll see you soon!