Couchfish Day 231: The Northern Lights of Ban Krut

Thailand’s southeast coast is long, slow and varied. There’s salt plains in the north, giving way to bay after bay, the sand changing from a deep grey to an off–gold. There’s mangroves, swamps and estuaries. Jungle nestles white sand crescents that see more crab claws than human tootsies. Craggy limestone headlands break it all up. A fishing village her…