Boats, beach, sand and too much sun

Greetings from Krabi, where we have been since Saturday afternoon. This picture was taken on Railay Beach as I tucked into some BBQ chicken and corn. They cook it for you right on the beach and its delicious. That's where we spent nearly all of yesterday wading in the cool waters and exploring some of the rocks and caves. The only annoying thing about Railay is how popular it is, which means lots of tourists prancing up and down the beach showing off their tattoos and butt cheeks. While we have both enjoyed Thailand, the feeling is that the islands and beach areas have been "over-discovered". Today we visited another beach (getting their via a long-tail boat) called Pharang beach, which was not as nice mainly because you had to wade about 50 metres to get waist deep and by navigating some very sharp stones. It got much worse at low tide.

Our journey over from Ko Samui was quite pleasant - the ferry was half empty and we dangled our feet over the edge and read and listened to music. Bus ride not so fun - hot and humid inside as the aircon was broken and water was dripping out of the right hand side of the bus.


(Left - A old fashioned sailing boat off Railay beach)

Most disappointing though was our accomodation - the brochure was very deceptive. Our bungalow is a good walk from the beach, is not very clean (gritty sheets), but worse of all, the bathroom stank like something had died inside. Our gracious host offered to "spray" to clear the smell; too his credit it has improved, but its not been a great place to go back to - the joys of budget accomodation.

Tomorrow we are going on a "James Bond" tour (our gracious host having gotten us a 400 baht discount) which is called so because we visit an island called Ko Khao Phinkan which was a location on the Bond film, The Man with the Golden Gun. I am quite excited about it. Hopefully it lives up to expectation!

Wednesday we depart "Smellville" for Ko Phi Phi!