A good decision!

Well we decided to go to Haad Mai the next beach along, for the day and that we would get a long tail boat round there and have a day out of our normal environment on Salad beach, so we got all packed up and ready to go with water, cameras, towels for the beach and sun cream. We trogged down the beach till we came to the water taxis and there were two couples with children having a discussion with one of the boat ladies, me being deaf, meant I heard non of this conversation but big ears! overheard that they were heading the same way so asked if we could share the boat and they said no problem so we all piled in an off we went.  They were going snorkelling from the beach we wanted to go to so we got dropped off and they did their snorkelling and the boat waited to take them onto another beach further round the island, we all agreed that they would pick us up at our beach at 4 pm. We had a good day at the beach and headed up to where we were going to be picked up and there was our boat waiting for us with no one else in it,  anyway we jumped aboard and and had a semi understandable conversation with the boat lady, enough to find out that there had been some problem with danger and the waves had become too big for the others to take the boat so they had returned by car.  Bit odd we thought as the waters seemed to be as calm as when we came.
The following morning we had breakfast with one of the couples who said that the waves further round the island were big and that even the boat lady had put a life jacket on, then as they approached their destination a body was spotted floating in the water, he said they were told not to look but couldn't really do that, and the children saw the chap who had been chopped up a bit, he was told by the boat people that he was probably a fisherman who had been in a fight and lost!!!! Due to the kids and them being upset about this, and the weather they had got a taxi home.
So we were really happy that we had not decided to join them on the second leg of the journey as that would have spoiled our day too. Winner!