Coco POW!

Last night is was very very windy. Our bungalow is made of wood, matting and the ceiling is made of dried palm leaves, so you can really hear and feel the wind whistling outside.

But, early this morning I could hear something strange. Now there are lots of strange things you hear here like:
Whooping gibbons (they go Whoooop Whooooop)
Very loud crickets which all start and stop at the same time. It's al,ost as if someone has a remote control and turns them on and off in the night.
Baby geckos which make the cuttest grumble and then I swear they say "geck-ooo, geck-ooo" followed by another cute grumble.
Sometimes you hear pigs being slaughtered but that's a horrible sound and mostly in cities or villages near rivers, not in Koh Lanta (forget that one).
Dogs pretending to be wolves. They all suddenly start howling in the middle of the night, it's eerie and mysterious.

But this wasn't any of the familiar noises I've mentionned. It was kind of like a ...swoosh followed by a thump, swoosh thump...every few minutes swoosh thump.
i wondered what it might be at 7.30am for a while whilst I lay there with one eye open (mmmm because that somehow helps me identify noises, not!), then I slipped back into dreamland. Eventually a couple of hours later we woke up, I had a big stretch and openned the door, and there they where....dozens of coconuts on the ground!

I've actually seen someone nearly get hit by one in Koh Tao, the things are leathal! They fall with the speed of lightning, and they fall straight until they smack with ten times the force of a World Wrestling Federation fighter's knee.
So this veeeeeery long waffling story was all a load of coconuts, but remember "where there's coconuts, there's danger".

Sam

P.S. If you read this at work and got all the way to the end of the story and didn't feel a hint of dissappointment or guilt, then maybe it's time to take a year out and go travelling ;o)