Quint: We finally screeched to a halt into Chumphon station after a very long 9 our ride. The journey had been extremely tiresome with no meals served through the journey and the use of the toilet which required a heavy duty trucking license to operate!
It was now 10pm and we had to try and figure out how to make it through this funny little town to our car ferry which was due to leave at 11pm!
Luckily, even at that late hour of the night, we noticed a few ladies looking out for such people like ourselves and like fresh sticky-buns from a bakery, we piled into the back of an open bakkie along with another 2 lost soles scraped off the pavement at the station and made a quick chips and beer stop at 7/11 before we were finally delivered right to the ramp of our ferry – right on time!
300BHT each a ticket and we were ready to go. We made it within 15 minutes to spare onto a small car ferry that to me much resembled the dodgy fishing boat off the movie ‘JAWS’! piled into the airless cabin with every colour of the rainbow we set off at 11pm sharp for our 6 hour voyage to paradise!
It didn’t take long for the sticky-buns to turn into fermenting dumplings and after a few more hours could not bare the sight or stench of eachother!
6 hours later at 5am, we pulled into Mae Haad Harbour. It had almost been a grilling 24hrs since we left Bangkok to arriving at our new destination. After a further few hours waiting cuddled up on the concrete steps outside 7/11, it started becoming light enough to see where we were.....PARADISE!
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