Wet Wet Wet live in Sairee

We awoke today after a lovely sleep to cloudy skies. Today on Koh Tao is the day the locals celebrate New Year (Songkran) by soaking each other with water. 

Ironically, the rain came and soaked everyone on the island far more than Songkran did. 

Sue and I walked up to the Nangyuan viewpoint and got there about half ten. Then the rain came so we decided that if we were going to get wet then we should take our weaponry into Sairee village and join in the soakfest.

The journey in was quite relaxed, just the odd watergun trained on us while we returned 'fire'. However, when we entered Sairee it was a different story. Almost everyone had waterguns and were arriving on the back of trucks with vats of water on board. Some locals were either standing outside throwing bowlfulls of water or with a garden hose trained on anyone who walked, drove or rode past on mopeds. Of the westerners involved we were about twenty five years older than the other participants.

We were involved in house to house waterfights and my objective was to aim at cigarettes. There were battles in every alleyway and we would have got less wet if we had jumped fully clothed into our pool.

It is still raining and it's twenty to five in the afternoon. We have never been subjected to rain effecting our holiday up until now. 

I feel more sorry for the Thais as it is their public holiday. Still, the objective is to get wet !