This resort was one we spotted from the ferry boat last time - we had taken a Day Trip to it, to see if we could find the Giant Manta Rays and swim with them!
This time we stayed for 3 days in the hopes of spotting them - but no luck.
We did think at one point that they were airlifting them in for us,and that this was a bit extreme - but this one had been injured. It gives you an idea of their size!
There was excellent diving and kayaking and snorkelling.
We had one bure on the beachfront, with its own hammock and sea views and one garden top bure for the girls, with vines around it and birds in the trees.
The down side was that it was an Eco-resort (which means that it's all environmentally friendly) so the showers were all cold and the electricity was limited - the generators went off at 10pm.
What it did mean, was that the stars were amazing - with no lights to obscure them we could see galaxies and star clusters so clearly it was unreal.
Also, the crabs came out at night and danced on the sand and dug tunnels, which we wouldn't have seen otherwise. Jessie's underwater camera took this picture - it's a whole other world under the water!
The restaurant was a steep climb up the hill but that meant we had an appetite and a view! There were palm trees and hibiscus everywhere, the girls collected hermit crabs and raced them and began to get tanned running, kayaking, snorkelling around everywhere.
We went kayak surfing with our guide (who lost his sunglasses in the waves) Jess was nearly lost at sea, while Sophia and I skirted around the wildest piece of water and made it to the beach on the other side of the island. Kayak surfing involves lots of high pitched yelling and hurtling kayaks - I'm surprised there aren't more accidents!
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