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We took it easy in the morning, then Hiroko and I went to Mambo's beach (small waves) with Michael. 

Breakfast in the chil-out corner

Miki with an iced tea.

Mai at Mambo's with her freshly made fruit juice - decorated with an exotic flower.

In the afternoon we went on a boat trip on the lagoon. It so happened, that we shared tuk-tuks to go to the lagoon with the other Danish family. 

 On the boat on the lagoon (eagle in background).

The lagoon turned out to be a vast stretch of shallow brackish water. The lagoon is home to a lot of small fish, birds (predator birds eating the fish), salt-water crocodiles, mangrove trees, and elephants that come to feed on mangrove trees. We constantly saw little fish flying over the water - it turned out that they jump to escape larger fish, sometimes as far as a couple of meters and with several jumps in a row. It was an interesting sight. The mangrove trees are full of a strange-looking green bean-like fruit, which the fishermen who paddled us called "beans" - they picked a few of them for us and it turned out that you can make a kind of whistle from the upper part of it.

Hiroko on the boat with the fishermen in the background

The lagoon with the mangrove trees