Banana Beach

This guide to Banana Beach in Phuket traces two decades of an open secret: a cove reached only through an unmarked gap in the coastal trees and a steep jungle path, kept alive by regulars and a lone family-run seafood restaurant under the palms. It follows how that secrecy held for so long, and what local divers found roughly forty-five metres offshore, where the seabed drops into a reef edge they call the Blue Wall. Listen for the parrotfish and reef sharks patrolling that drop-off.