Had a great day today. Overslept a bit as we lost the hour we gained for Thailand, but still made breakfast in good time. No tenders today, yippee as it takes so much more time to get to the coaches. It was a nice experience to walk down the gangplank, lol. Langkawi is the largest island of Malaysia and langkawi is the local name for the Brahminy kite.  Our tour was at the Kilim Karst Geoforest Park up in the northwest part of the island, the ship was on the south coast. It was the 52nd world recognised UNESCO geopark. Our tour group was split into groups of 8 and we clambered into a small boat and headed for the bat cave! The entire region is limestone hence the caves complete with stalags and bats.  Also snakes, monkeys and other reptiles in the surrounding mangrove forests. We saw the small insectivorous bats in both caves, having to crab walk under a very low adjoining tunnel to get to the 2nd cave. We then hopped back into the boat and watched some of the local langkawi and other hawks being fed chicken skin scraps. They had to cut down on the amount of feeding as the monkey and snake populations increased greatly with their predators eating out elsewhere. Then a quick trip out of the mouth of the Kilim River into the Andaman Sea. From there a visit to a fish farm, the local archer fish in the river kept everyone amused. Then back to the coach and the ship. Left Mum having a rest and then I took a short walk along the pier to get a photo of the ship, and as I wandered along, there were a pair of white-bellied sea eagles soaring over the waters near the ship, brilliant to watch. I managed some moving footage of the kites feeding and of these eagles, just have to work out how to get them into the blog, probably not this time around.  We were luckily on the pier side so we watched the docking and will watch the departing as well.