This morning we awoke to low overcast skies… the up-side was that the temperature was a balmy but very comfortable 25 Degrees Celsius (about 80 Degrees Fahrenheit) and the humidity was back into the tolerable range.

Overcast skies in the morning.

We spent the majority of the day enjoying the relative break in the string of hot and humid days, although by early afternoon, the sun broke through and temperature started to climb along with the humidity. We mostly hung out on the veranda listening to tunes and reading. In the evening, we decided to head back into Ban Saladan for dinner. Just before we caught a tuk-tuk into town, we saw this view of the creek that runs down to Long Beach.

Creek leading to the Andaman Sea.

Dinner was again decent enough but otherwise unremarkable. During dinner, the air began to feel heavier and the day’s breezes seemed to vanish. So, we retreated back to the hammock and chairs of our bungalow. It was a thoroughly lazy, “do-nothing-day”… just the kind of day that needed a nice cigar to cap it all off.