Sunday, 20 April 2014

Day 97 – Halong Bay to Castaway Island.

Sleeping on a boat is weird but I got a reasonable amount of sleep. We got woken up at 7am for breakfast and needed to be out of our rooms by 8. We then moved from our boat, to the smaller boat and then to another boat. Basically spent the morning moving boats before eventually arriving on the private island called Castaway around midday.
The company have a guy called Tom who lives on the island, well 5 days a week anyway! 


He told us we can go kayaking, rock climbing and High speed tubing if we want too. Obviously I had a go at all three. Yesterday was quite cloudy and a bit chilly during the day but today we had perfect beach weather, which was exactly what we wanted… seeing as we were at the beach and all. We ate lunch, and then tackled some rocks. I made it about two thirds of the way up and couldn’t get any higher. I could see a couple of places but was too small to get to them to push myself higher. Chrissy had a go too when I got down and got to a similar place as me.

  

I then went tubing and fell off three times.  It wasn’t really tubing, it was more a big cushion attached to a boat which you held onto, until they flung you off. It was good fun but gained a few bruises from it and drank a lot of seawater. 


Last but not least on the list of things to do was kayaking. I wasn’t that bothered after the disaster of yesterday but Chrissy was up for doing all the work again, so obviously I went along for the ride. It was pretty amazing as it was mostly just nature, the water and us. We went into this cove where our voices echoed and random birds and things surrounded us. We then went and had a quick look at this private beach before heading back to the island before it got dark.



Dinner was amazing like the rest of the food we’ve been given on this trip. The sea was full of glowing plankton that comes alive when you disturb the water, pretty cool!

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