Today we stopped at the island of Phuket. The sea was really flat once we could see it and our non-event sunrise. On a tender again and we had to get off at the customs port as the other usual one had another cruise ship in place, so this one wasn’t really designed for all the traffic of big buses, taxis, cars, etc and huge muddy puddles. Our first stop of the tour was the southern most point of the island and therefore of Thailand. Sadly all the smoke meant that the views weren’t as good as they should have been, but that’s just one of those things. There was a shrine thee surrounded by elephants of all sizes, the bigger the elephant the bigger the wish that was granted. From there we went to the Phuket Seashell Museum. An amazing place and so well arranged, it was delightful to see the shells and the fossils collected over the last 30 years. Then on to the Wat Chalong Temple, the guide saying it was the largest and prettiest temple on the island. Sadly it started to rain as we got there so didn’t see more than a couple of the buildings, and our shoes filled up with water when we went inside LOL. Mind you at 33 C it just added marginally to the already high humidity. Then on to the obligatory shop which had so much stuff crammed into it that it was just too much! Back on the ship just after 2.30, a late lunch and a note saying our Kuala Lumpur tour had been cancelled, for lack of participants. Oh well, we will find something else I’m sure.