Ecovilla Krabi

Great to see two sets of guests retuning for a rendezvous at ecovilla bungalow - the kids especially had a great day….

Good time for family visit before high season.

Two families from Malaysia they known here from their friends, all of them 13 people are nice and warm especially two grandmas are friendly .we had great time with them talk ,cook and join the meal.

This place is interesting also and not far from here

Lucky for Tien (5th birthday) We had guests turn up with lots of kids - Just added cake and balloons

Small Clawed Otter feeding naturally

Wow love durian season here and this time is the peak season with large fruit dropping fast - Prices are competitive at 100-150bht/ kilo bcs there few Chinese tourists to sample the king of tropical fruits
They say you either love them or you hate them and we certainly love them

ที่นี้จะไม่ทำให้คุณเหงา แต่ที่นี่มักมีเรื่องให้ตื่นเช้าเสมอ พร้อมกับอาหารเช้าเพื่อสุขภาพ ไข่จากฟาร์ม ผัก จากสวน และต่อด้วยกิจกรรมต่างๆมากมาย
#ขอบคุณ แขกจาก อิสราเอล นอร์เวร์
#ขอบคุณ เพื่อนที่มาช่วยซอมปั๊มน้ำ และระบบไฟ @บ่าวตาล เอง

บางทีธรรมชาติ ก็สวยดีอยู่แล้ว ไม่จำเป็นต้องแต่งอะไรมากมาย...รู้สึกผ่อนคลายไปด้วยกันกับครอบครัวชาวฝรั่งเศส ..มาพักกับธรรมชาติได้ครบทุกรสชาติ ทะเล คลอง ป่า และสัตว์...

We proud to offer free range duck eggs
Price 6Bht per each =180bht/ tray of 30 eggs
Our eggs have big red yokes and average 65-75gm. We bought a tray of duck eggs from a big supermarket to compare and found they weighed 62gm on average and didnt have the same colour
Our ducks are locked up at night and free range around the gardens and ponds through the day.
The Thai locals love our eggs and easy to sell

Wow - the first of the season mangosteens are ready and delicious
Lucky to have a couple of agile locals to pick the first 3kg
Nim wanted to sell sell ( 100 bht / kg) but they didn’t make it past the front gate

Breakfast on fire under the Red Jade Vine consisting of our own
* Oganic duck eggs
* Coconuts which made the beef coconut curry (more fire)
* Whole meal bread ( practice makes perfect)

With mangosteen tree in background - more about that shortly...

Ragum and Numwa bananas today
Love Thai fruits

Otters like cat food too, but Goldie prefers social distance plus you never know who you will find in your cupboard here...

Jackfruit - so much flesh from one fruit - it’s heavy - hurry up Nim said

ให้ธรรมชาติได่ผ่อนคล้าย...ความเหนื่อยล้า...
ecovilla krabi

I went to the Krabi Tessabarn tip today in Sai Tai ( back of Makro on Hwy 4) for the first time - it was quite a mission as some of the minor roads marked in Google Earth are now non existent
The main point of this post however is to advertise extent of the dog pack that lives there and their plight. I was shocked to see more than 50 dogs roaming around scrounging vainly for food. Many of them were friendly and after a good bath would be very presentable.
I spoke to the lady at the weigh station about the dogs and she said there is an employee who feeds them occasionally but no-one cares for them all. However there is a significant dynamic that is effecting the dogs currently and that is the Krabi Tessabarn tip has recently stopped taking household rubbish and now only takes solid waste Ie cement rubble; steel ceramic; earth back fill etc - l was turned back initially and directed to the ACE incinerator complex 1 km back along the road. So the dogs no longer can scrounge in the house hold rubbish for food waste because that now goes directly to the ACE incinerator, as it is classed as burnable
The Krabi Tessabarn tip is in the process of turning the tip site into a scenic site and a large water catchment / dam is close to completion l feel very sorry for the dogs and was able to make contact with a few of them but the large No’s of them is shocking.. Never seen anything like it..
For clarity
The Tessabarn tip takes only hard waste in my case 1/2 ute load 220 kg = 103bht
The ACE incinerator complex nearby only takes burnable waste 20-30 kgs = 8 bht

We have so many mangoes and bananas at the moment. Nim is sun drying them, the process is simple, peel them and then soak in a bowel of water with 1 tbl of salt added, for 5 min. Then spread the fruit out in the sun, the mangoes (sliced) take 3 days to dry while the bananas (whole) take 7 days. We don’t have a dehydrator machine so the fruit being processed is put into the fridge overnight.

Lastnight we camp at the local mountain top ..two km away it overlooks Ecovilla and Klong Tarntip valley...we woke up to a cowd of sightseeing shoolgirls who were up very early for sunrise

Simone and Luca stayed with us for three months
This was our goodbye dinner celebration. Safe travels Simone and Luca - hope to see you in Khaothong again