I know I said I'd avoid posting pictures of the damn beach and sunsets and other boring stuff but I couldn't help it as it would have been extremely difficult to create this post without doing so!
We brought our little house guest Kwan down to stay in Samui through the summer holidays and as when the sun started to go down, I took him down to our local beach, Lip Noi. Even pre-covid, it was a beautiful, un-spoilt and very quiet beach on the opposite side of the island from the main tourist locations with only a couple of small resorts lining the beach but since covid, and like our little local area in general, it seems to have been 'discovered' by tourists. It has also been discovered by 'the jetski guys!'
As the sun went down, it was time to put the jetskis away. I'd wondered whether they'd just leave them bobbing about overnight but no, at bang on 6pm, they began wheeling trailers out from behind the trees, one for each of the nine jetskis.
There is a small alleyway down to the beach and one guy reversed the ubiquitous Toyota pick-up to the end of the road and fastened a huge length of rope to the back. The rope was long enough to reach the edge of the water and the first trailer to the end and floated the first jetski onto it. Obviously, they didn't want to get the truck stuck on the beach. The truck moved forward and the process was repeated four more times until the first jetski was about at the entrance to the beach and the last one was just out of the water before they unfastened the rope from the truck, and reversed it back, directly connecting it to the first jetski. The truck pulled forward and the remaining four jetskis were hauled out, the Toyota now having 9 jetskis on trailers fastened to the back of it in a huge snaking, jetski roadtrain.
"I think its time we went home for some tea" said the jetski guy.
A long rope was tied between the first jetski and the Toyota pick-up!
One at a time they were hauled out of the water.
Next...
When the first trailer was on firm ground, everyone held onto the train to stop it rolling back into the sea as the truck was reversed back to the first trailer.
At this point, I had absolutely no idea where they were going to take them. The main road is only 100m up the track.
Just in case you're wondering how much all this fun and frivolity on the water costs...
Time to go home for tea. Giddy-up!!!
Where the hell were they going to take them I wondered. Surely they won't be driving a truck with nine jetskis fastened precariously to the back onto a main road? I know this is Thailand but even for Thailand, that would be barmy!