{"id":2197,"date":"2017-03-10T17:25:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2017-03-10T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T17:25:44","slug":"our-final-hong-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=2197","title":{"rendered":"Our final Hong video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are working our way south, and seem to be encountering some very nice beach resorts on the way.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2202\" src=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/drink.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/drink.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/drink-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2203\" src=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/eat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/eat.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/eat-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>We came to this island, Ko Muk, mainly to see &#8220;The Emerald Cave&#8221; which is actually a hong, accessible via an 80 metre long tunnel. Normally you have to swim in, but we were lucky to catch the tides right and get in with the dinghy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2200\" src=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hong-entrance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hong-entrance.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/hong-entrance-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once in it was quite spectacular, a lovely sandy beach with trees growing all up the vertical walls. The Emerald bit was lost on me, must be my colour blindness, but Kathy understood.<\/p>\n<p>I made a short vid of the trip.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 840px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2197-1\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/myuploads\/finalhong.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/myuploads\/finalhong.mp4\">https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/myuploads\/finalhong.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later we sat on the beach and watched the sun set behind sister Midnight. I was hoping the other beach goers taking pictures were thinking, &#8216;how lovely to see the sun set behind such a classic stylish yacht&#8217;, but they were probably thinking, &#8216;shame about the yacht getting in the way!.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2201\" src=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/boats3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/boats3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/boats3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nTomorrow, Saturday, we head for Koh Nok, a three hour sail I hope, then on Sunday a 6-8 hour sail to the Butang island group, and the island of Ko Lipe, for a few days, then a day sail into N Langkawi, Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Collister<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are working our way south, and seem to be encountering some very nice beach resorts on the way.We came to this island, Ko Muk, mainly to see &#8220;The Emerald Cave&#8221; which is actually a hong, accessible via an 80 metre long tunnel. Normally you have to swim in, but we were lucky to catch &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/?p=2197\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our final Hong video&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistermidnight.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}