Thailand has some spectacular stuff in the water.
And to get to it, you ride in these crazy long boats that have, no shit, car engines mounted on long poles - one end has a prop, the engine is on the other and the driver swivels it around to steer.
They just park them on the beach. Docks ? None.
But they can take you here :
Which is just up the beach from this huge cliff.
And if you go into the gap on the right side of that, you can see this guy climbing up the 70 feet or so on the side of that small rock:
And this woman doing sexy poses for her guy:
And there are monkeys.
Beautiful.
Boat question: why car engines? Cheaper to re-purpose them than getting an outboard?
I assume it’s cheaper. Plus all the boats are designed identically, and the design requires that 12′ swiveling drive shaft/ motor mount, with the prop waaaay out in back. Maybe having the prop close to the boat like an outboard would have would change the handling?
They’re loud as hell , too.