day 23: slept in and awoke in the warm sunny beachy air. no roosters!!! actually i woke up pretty early as i had gone to bed at 9pm the night before. read some harry potter before the others got up at 9. ate breakfast. lay on the beach. swam in the water. finished harry potter 1. ate lunch. lay on the hammock. played cards. took a nap. took a shower. laid out some more. in the afternoon the tide went out so far that we could walk for at least 100 meters out and look at the tidepools- saw starfish, little crabs, shells galore, flipping starfish, rocks, cool sand patterns, mating starfish.
now that i think about it, i don't think this was a separate day. hmmm. i have got my days switched up. i think we did all this day 22 afternoon, when we first arrived.
day 23 for reals: took an early ferry to Ko Phi Phi island (pronounce Ko Pee Pee). this is the island portrayed in the book and film The Beach with Leonardo DiCaprio. SO PRETTY. rented a longboat and a driver, rented snorkle masks and fins, spent the day flitting about the different parts of the islands. saw many brightly colored fish. the water is so warm!!!!!! after a while the snorkle mask started getting on my nerves (you know how it stretches out your lips that way) and i was not getting the breathing down right and slightly hyperventilating. miriam felt the same way i think. i snorkled a bit while holding my breath. but the white sand beaches were too inviting and so we kicked our way to shore and just sort of lay on the soft sand for a while, much in the manner of beached whales.
now that i think about it, we might have spent that extra day just sitting around before taking the boat to the islands. this might be day 24. the girls aren't around to ask. hmmm.
how beautiful was this island, you ask. very. my goodness, it was simply picturesque. white sand beaches. by white, i mean white. crayola white. blue blue water. clean, warm water. palm trees coming out of the sand. leaning out over the water. lush green mountains inland. the sun in the blue sky. (are you jealous yet?) we lay on the shore where the small waves met the sand and ate cheese sandwiches and took pictures and dug holes and built sand-drip castles. eventually we had to boat back to the port and boat back to Krabi and taxi back to our guesthouse, where we sat on the beach some more and ate dinner. started harry potter 2: chamber of secrets. played cards with the 'Raelis. i met some very nice strange fellows who claimed that there was a woman in australia who has not eaten or drinken (is that a word? probably not.) for 13 years. apparently she lives off light energy, like plants. i was too mellow and pleasantly tired to tell them i thought it was bullshit.
day 25: woke up late again. by late i mean i woke up at 8. lay around, went to eat breakfast, lay about on the beach. we took a boat to a beach called Riley Beach. (probably not spelled like that. probably spelled Rhi lae or something. it is Thai, after all.) This beach is supposedly the prettiest beach in the country. well. thats quite something to live up to, but it actually was the prettiest beach in the country, as well as we could judge. looked sort of like the beach from Ko Phi Phi only nicer. a few shady spots. layed out there. at one point a little Thai girl walked up to us and sat down on my sarong. she just sat there. then she opened my backpack and took out a peice of gum and put it in her mouth. then she got up and walked away. me and miriam got sick of the sun and so we walked to the opposite side of the beach where there were bunches of rock climbers clambering up the steep limestone to get to this hidden lagoon. very cool. we watched them struggle for a while and then returned to the sun-bathing side. i finished harry potter 2. in the evening we ate in Ao Nang town, at a very overpriced restaurant which provided us with a fantastic view of the highway. the pink and purple sunset was also visible. at night we played more cards. i went to bed at 9. magnificent!!!
day 26: woke up late again. i think i should say, slept in, because i awoke naturally at 8am. lay on the beach. ate breakfast, packed, showered. we took a taxi to the bus station in Krabi proper and then spent all afternoon and evening on a horrible bus to Surat Thani, the other side of the coast, where we ate dinner and got back on the bus for our overnight to Bangkok (our favorite city). terrible bus ride. never do an overnight bus. not at all comfortable and rather smelly.
unfortunately, i cannot remember any Krabi quotes and i never wrote any down.
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