what I did this weekend

took a nice big boat from phangan to surrat-thani, then an overcrowded bus for four hours to krabi, 3 person for 2 seat, and ticket collector didn’t believe we paid, but they let us go anyway. It’s not like I couldn’t have paid the 2 dollars again, but it’s principle, made it to hat rai lay after truck from krabi to ao nong and ‘long boat’ to this bit of penisula where no cars can get beyond the massive limestone cliffs. While the islands were a haven for scuba divers, this is the rock climbing capital of thailand. everytime I stop to wonder at the insane vertical, I see a bit of human dangling from ropes.

becky and i stuck to the sea and snorkelled finally in beautiful still water from wherever we could paddle our litle sea canoe. colorful fishes, mostly small, sea urchin, coral, and gorgeous rock formatinos that made paddling exciting as we dodged stalagtites in the bits of sea cave.

3 baht per minute here, and everything is expensive, so we just went with the flow and got an overpriced room next to the overpriced restaurant, and it’s still relatively cheap compared to home. the seafood is amazing here, sea bass (whole) and a bucket of steamed mussels for dinner last night. Maybe I’ll finally try the barracuda, but those teeth make me nervous.

Sorry no way to send pictures yet, but hopefully soon. not sure where we are going next. we are staying here at least another night to do more snorkelling tomorrow, maybe have a boat take us to the more remote rocks.