Visiting Trang beach

After Songkran's festival at my grandpa's house, I came back to Trang and was just in time to do some trips with my friends from high school before they all went back to their work/study places. We went to the beach 40 minute outside of Trang city for delicious seafood meal. The restaurant was next to a pier and a fisherman village which we spotted a bunvh of canoes for hire. So we decided for a short paddle after a our meal. Five of us went in one canoe (2 too many for the usual load but they let us go anyway). We paid 100 baht for 5 people and for unlimited time of paddling(it was 5 pm so they probably knew that we wouldn't go for long although the canoe hirer said we could paddle even when it's dark.) Our paddling experience was... funny. Out of 5 people, only 2 that could somewhat paddle so we spent a lot of time just spinning around. It was very funny and we had so much laughters that we almost couldn't stop. We could see that people from the village was looking and giving us moral support from the shore. My friend and I finally reached the beach on the other side of the channel. The beach on the mainland of Trang province are usually made of dark sand and some areas are even muddy. The place where we landed our canoe was muddy and filled with sea grass. It's interesting looking for marine creatures in that ecosystem. We saw some people picking up some kind of shellfish which could be eaten. We spend about an hour walking barefeet in that soft muddy shore and digging up funny marine creatures. It was a sea visit experience that was so different from anywhere else I've been to. It might not look so inviting for many people but it was awesome for me. =D

The white sea grass flowers float on the water surface above the shallow sea grass bed

The protective part that contains white flowers of the sea grass


Sunset behind the fisherman village on the mainland


One of my friends is digging up what is believed to be a funky shellfish with extremely long body while the other one is helping by pulling her (making sure she won't be pulled down by the monster. =P


Me massaging my feet on the soft muddy beach