Francoise and Tabkaak

This is the latest addition to our family here in Thap Prik. It's a little tree frog of some sort that we named "Francoise". Being a frog, we figured a French name was in order. He moved in almost a week ago and spends the day where you see him, which is on our front porch on the window frame. He just sits there all day, then a night he leaves but is back in the morning. I guess he goes looking for bugs for food, something there is no shortage of here. The other day he didn't come home for two days and we thought we'd lost him but he finally came back. I guess he know he has a good thing here.

Today, we took a ride up to one of the less developed beaches and had a nice walk looking for shells and such. It is call Tabkaak Beach and the view was pretty spectacular. The beach is on Phang Nga Bay, which is the big bay between Krabi on the mainland and the island of Phuket to the west. The bay is just loaded with the karsts you see in the photo, which are the same sort of rock formations as the ones next to our house, except these of course are in the water. The beach is one of many in Krabi Providence, and was about a half hour drive from home.