Back on the mainland: Feeling a bit Krabii today?

"I just ate the cheapest watermelon icecream ever--just 8 baht".

About an hour or so we arrived at our next destination--Krabii. Krabbii is actually more like a "waiting room" for those going to the beaches of Ralai and Ao Nang, which are both on the Adaman Sea, Thailand's west coast. This morning we caught a taxi ride to the pier to catch a ferry back to the main land, caught the ferry, got on a bus and then got on another bus. By the time we arrived in Krabii it was already dark and the only way to get to the beaches is by taking a songthaow toi the pier and then catching a longtail boat to the beach. Apparently it's quite dodgy getting to beach at night because not only do the longtail boats charge more at night, we'd also be on the water in the dark with our hikking backpacks on. The thought of being on a semi rickety boat at night is a creepy one. So...we're spending the night in the town of Krabbii and heading out to Hat Rai Ley beach tomorrow morning.

It's not bad, the food is cheap, less English is spoken and it's so much more Thai than the islands.Yesterday we went on a boat tour through Munchies Boat Tours, which entails taking a longtail boat around the island of Ko Pangan and visiting a few hard-to-reach beaches, snorkelling, hikking up to a waterfall and free weed, as well as Coke n' whiskey. The water is so clear and blue, I felt like drinking it. However, when water splashed all over my face and into my mouth, I was quickly thrust back into reality--you can't drink saltwater and live for very long afterwards. Overall it was a good trip although there were a few momments when I thought the boat was going to capsize because the waves were quite choppy on the way back--I thought we might crash into the rocks or even worse, that the boat would split in two and we'd be stuck at sea without life jackets. The tour included lunch, weed, beverages and beaches, but no life jackets.

Well, sometimes we have to make sacrafices right?