Still exploring and finding new things

Trev's been away for a few weeks now and you know how it can be.
You're living an idyllic life, beach, greenery, parks, birds -
absolutely everything that Hanoi wasn't and you get a bit complacent.
Well the kids are feral had a cold which has made everyone panic
except us about good ol' H1N1. I say "let's go to the beach" and I
get screamed NO by one or both of them. Or I say let's go to the park
and one wants to go to one place and the other a different place.
Remember they are 2 years old so any compromise is normally proceeded
by a lot of screaming and tantruming. Today I yelled back and loaded
them into the car for an adventure. We didn't get far as I was
curious what the local public beach would be like on a glorious Sunday
arvo. Would there be a dick pulling incident here like Ha Tien?

We headed down to Telok Chempedek which is just over the other side of
the hill from our place. If you've seen the photos there is a tennis
court, then a hill of trees behind the tennis court which is the
botanical gardens and on the other side of the hill is Chempedek
beach. The beach was busy but not crowded. The sand was hot damn hot
and the water was calm and crystal clear. There is a boardwalk which
leads into some shade from Casuarina trees so we took that as all 6 of
our feet were burning and lugging the two kids was only slowing me
down and burning my feet more. This boardwalk takes you over large
boulders which seems to be the theme of beaches around here and after
another little corner to an amazing secluded beach. Needless to say
we spent a few hours kicking the ball and making castles before
heading back to the main beach for coconut drinks and some nasi ayam
(a rice and chicken dish). Now to even kind of achieve that kind of
bliss in Hanoi would have entailed a flight to Danang - so am I
thrilled to be here? YESSSS


Next time I go I'll take some pics but for now here is where it is

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We live in the orange buildings at the very bottom and the big long stretch is Telok Chempedek then there's almost no beach which is the boardwalk and then the secluded nice beach. Will find out the name of it but did read something about it being a site where the Japanese invaded Kuantan during WWII.