Boat trip

Some things are cheap, some expensive, but luckily for us boat trips are one of the cheapest things that you can do on Koh Rong. And so, with $10 tickets in hand we headed for the beach. We shared our little boat with a couple we had met the night before, a Swedish couple from our hostel and some German girls which ended up being the perfect group size and mix of people to lead to a good day out.

It was only a tiny local boat that we were on and out hosts didn’t even really speak any English but even so we ended up having a really nice time and chatting to each other to get to know our nautical companions. First off we all we headed out to a tiny island off of the coast to to do some snorkelling with the equipment they provided. Unfortunately we didn’t have any flippers which made swimming against the current there a little more difficult but we still got to see some good sights and plenty of fish on the reef.

Once we were done with that it was time to earn our dinner for the day and do some fishing. With all of us armed with our rock, line and hook we all set about fishing off the boat to try and catch something for our beach BBQ later. It was a laid back atmosphere are pretty good to just chill on a boat, line in one hand, beer in the other, chatting to people you had just met. After a little while I managed to catch my first (and only) fish which I was proud about but after that the luck was against me. It wasn’t that the fish weren’t biting, to the contrary, I kept feeling a tug and would pull my line in only to find that the fish had eaten my bait and left the hook sitting there nice and clean. This must have happened at least 8 time so I don’t think I will ever make a prize fisherman.

After we finished fishing with various success we took our haul and headed for Long beach on the far side of the island to set up the BBQ and watch the sun set. While our hosts cooked the food we played frisbee in the warm sea and chilled out on the beach. I am not the biggest fan of fish but I have to say that the BBQ’d fresh fish wasn’t too bad at all, i could certainly get used to it if I was hungry enough. We finished eating just in time to watch the sun set over the ocean which was beautiful and I did try to get a timelapse video of it, however the action cam decided to die on me so I’m not too happy about that. At least I bought the other camera to get some decent pics 🙂 Just before we were supposed to go a random girl walked up to our group and it turned out to be Noa, who had been Scuba diving all day. She had finished and took a water taxi straight to the beach and found us because of the frisbee with was great. Was good to see her and she jumped on the boat with us back to the main beach.

Another good day with good people which is all I could hope to ask for.