Where is the best place to look for shells and interesting coral and stones along the beach? I know that Samui isn't the greatest place for this, but I have come across some neat-looking shells and rocks/coral from time to time (although they are often small).

What about Koh Phangan and Koh Tao?

Any suggestions?

I find many "Shiva Eyes" on the Haad Rin Pier or in Srithanu in Koh Phangan.

I am not sure where on Koh Samui to look but here on Koh Phangan some of the best places to look are where the local fishermen clean their fishing nets (these would be the smaller longtail boats run by local guys, not the big fishing boats)

Khanom on the mainland.

20 min drive from donsak

...where the local fishermen clean their fishing nets ....

This is true. However, it isn't usually the peaceful walk on the beach that makes beachcombing enjoyable. Usually, unless you are a very early bird indeed, the pile of unwanted "catch" is starting to become rather odiferious....

But you can find interesting stuff there.

Any Samui sites?

Khanom on the mainland.

20 min drive from donsak

North or South?

Khanom on the mainland.

20 min drive from donsak

North or South?

South.

Going to be annoying and say Trang is the best place I have found. Beautiful beach to walk down as well at sunset.

For Koh Phangan try the small secluded beach to the south of Mae Haad. I've found quite a few Shiva Eyes there. The best time to go 'beach shopping' is just after there's been rough seas, loads of goodies to be found.

Maybe you want to tell what interesting things all of you have found yet!

sorry to spoil your shell and corqal collecting but it is ileagal to colect marine items.

the marine police are very assertive about this isuue.

sorry to spoil your shell and corqal collecting but it is ileagal to colect marine items.

1) Where do you get that idea?

2) Were that to be so, dead shells/coral washed up on the shore, I hardly think that the police (has anyone ever seen marine police policing outgoing tourists at the airport for "shell smuggling"?) could give a tinker's dam_n about a few shells.

Or what about this:

I'm sooooo lawless.....

Looks like a stone...

Looks like a stone...

Yes, you are quite observant. But it is a "marine" stone, as I picked it up along the shore.

Thank god we no longer live in the days of Thaksin's crackdown on marine pilfering when all those beachcombers were killed in extrajudiciary "sentencing."