Half a day of survey/mapping work today. We take some more points on the road - near the little shop which has been providing me with my daily nescafe iced coffee shots - to ensure we don't get any errors when we start mapping in the rice fields/moat behind Belinda's site.
As we only have half a day today we're trying to do this as fast as we can, so that we can get all the points we need. All seems to be going well and we record quite a few points, and redo the area which did not record properly on Friday. Before noon we return to Mrs Voi's place and download the data to the computer... ahhhhh.... the same error is recorded and alas all the work has been for nothing again! Sadly Caitlin will need to return on Sunday with Nigel, to find out what the fault is and will have to record all points all over again ;o(
As a side note: we did have some fun the last half hour of mapping, where we tried to map/record/spell out NIGEL on the moat. So hopefully he gets to see that before the data gets wiped!
Everyone returns from their tasks and freshens up at Mrs Voi's home. Simming trunks and sunnies are donned and before we know it we're off in our Songtaos to the river, where we will be boarding our floating raft. It's about a 45mins drive before we arrive at our beautiful departure point.
After purchasing the necessary beverages we board the very spacious raft for a beautfily luncheon. Lunch is cleared, and we're off to drift down the beautiful river, for some drinks, swimming and of course karoake! (see photos to the right)
After a couple of hours of great fun we return to shore, and back in the Songtaos to our hotel. As this is our last day, we decide we need to do something fun. So, Michael, Flash, Nathan, Caitlin, Jen, Angela and Moi decide to take a Songtao to Karat (45mins - 1hr drive) this evening post dinner, and have a few drinks and dance to a local band at Bar Nana. A great time is had by all, and we return to Phimai a little worse for wear... Michael and I will need to get up early, and start the travel back to Bangkok with the other Earthwatchers .. the others however will need to get up early and get to work...
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