May 20, 2025
MANZANILLO, MEXICO
We heard about a baby turtle release party and made arrangements with our tour agent from the Boat charter to pick us back up at 6:40 pm and take us to the turtle shelter. When we got there, we found about 30 babies were going to be released, they had all grown to 45 days old, in the shelter and sadly only 1/3 of them will make it once they hit water. Most of them seemed to be struggling directionally in making it to the waters edge, before the waves came in and washed them around. The volunteer would turn them over and set them up on the right path to the ocean. Very cute and we pray some of them make it to adulthood!
After the turtle release we went back to the Port where the locals were putting on a welcome show for us!
I really enjoyed my first trip to Thailand! On our final morning here we went to try breakfast at this spot, down the road, we had been hearing rave reviews on, King Of Bread . The hype was correct, the breakfast was delicious and they had some unique choices. I had eggs benedict on a croissant, in lieu of the standard english muffin and Bosco had it on Milk Bread, which was equally tasty.
We love having authentic experiences with locals to really get a chance to see how they live and thrive in the Ports we visit. So when I found a cooking class, by a local woman offered in her home, we were excited to book. Um ( our teacher) picked us and brought us back to our hotel along with the family of 4 from Sydney, Australia, that had also signed up for this afternoon class. Um's house, which has a lovely open air kitchen, garden and dining area, was about a 30 minute drive and turned out to be on the beach, right next to the Grandparent Rocks.
The nightlife scene doesn't really get going till after 11pm and goes till 5 am in the Chaweng section of Koh Samui . We made our way over to the club district, and one of the hot spots called the ArkBar a little past 10pm to have some dinner, while watching the beach fire shows.