Sunday we started out for Wat Tham Seua (Tiger Cave Temple) but decided to stop first at Phanom Bencha Mountain Resort. It's a private resort just outside Khao Phanom Bencha National Park and not far from us. The resort was so interesting and beautiful we ended up spending a lot of time walking around the grounds, and never got to Wat Tham Seua. But there is always tomorrow when you live here and are retired. We are going to try and get to the wat later this week. The picture you see is one of several ponds, all connected by a mountain stream, and the restaurant is on the left. In the center is a small island and while we were there, a rather large python could be seen in one of the trees. While we were watching it, a water monitor lizard dropped from the tree and into the water then swam right over to us. I think it was very relieved to escape the python. There are more pictures of the resort on our Facebook site.

Our resident tree frog ("bpaat" in Thai) Francoise, has been pretty active lately. He has moved off the outside window frame and now seems to like being just inside the window. That's fine with us but we had to put a stopper in the window so it doesn't get slammed shut by the wind when it kicks up like it can when a monsoon storm blows through. We've seen many a geko get squashed in the windows that way and we'd hate to see that happen to Francoise.