January 20, 2013 - Rawai, Phrom Thep Cape, Yanui Beach, and Nai Harn Beach

Today we got hold of a map, with a little subsection that showed Rawai, Phrom Thep Cape, Yanui Beach, and Nai Harn Beach. The thing about little sub-maps? They make big areas look small. This is why every decent mapmaker, and, frankly, every decent human being includes a scale on their map.

I told Lucky over breakfast, as I studied what appeared to be a rather little peninsula of Phuket, that it'd be entirely do-able to walk to Nai Harn. Mark those words, by the way. They were the words of a fool.

We left early--around nine, I believe--to avoid the worst of the day's heat. This was wise. Six or seven would have been wiser.

Somehow less scary, now.