Life's a Beach

Over Labor Day weekend, Jeremy and I took our first trip to the Cambodian beach.  We chose a quiet little beach hideaway outside the city of Sihanoukville.  Although I guess it wasn't much of a hideaway since five other embassy families were also staying there!

The highlight of the weekend was a private boat tour to nearby islands.  Our voyage began with the boat pulling right up to the beach at our resort.  Talk about door to door service!

We headed out to sea towards the closest island.  The boat crew cracked up when I took this photo of the captain's backside as we approached land!

Instead of going onto the island, we anchored slightly offshore and snorkeled around.  I didn't see much and struggled with a leaky face mask before quickly calling it quits.  Jeremy and our friend Rich had better luck venturing to a nearby reef.

Then we were back in the boat to hit the next island.  This time we went ashore and tossed a frisbee in the shallow, calm water.

Having had our fill of sun, and realizing it was time for lunch, we boarded our boat and returned to the resort, where we enjoyed some refreshing cocktails with our meal.