Krabi

Princes Cave Shrine

Part of the opening to Princess Cave

Rai Leh Beach

Chicken Island...get it? Though it's more like Turkey Island.

Haha! I LOVE the Christmas light contest posts! I was laughing out loud in the internet cafe! I'm imagining a big star on Uncle Moe's house, and the 3000+ lights complete with outdoor speakers on Uncle Dave's. Oh man.

Yesterday, Lucas and I went on a day trip to Krabi. We woke up to sunshine, but as the day went on, the dark clouds came in, and we were in another rainstorm. But, it was alright, as the air was still warm and we had roof over our heads. The day started at 630 am when we had some toast and coffee/tea. We were picked up at 7am by the tour company and we were back on another boat. The ride was over 2 hours long, but we made it to our first place after transferring boats. We first went to Chicken Island. You can see why it is called that from the picture. We went snorkelling here. The tour guides kept throwing in cheese or bread, and the little fish were swarming it. They were doing this right at the bottom of the ladder. It reminded me of feeding the Piranhas at the Nature Centre. And they expected me to go down the ladder right into that?? But I did, even though I was slightly freaked out about it. Lucas even did it. We didn't go far from the boat though. I bought an underwater camera, and took a couple shots, but having so many hungry fish around me like that, was not awesome. We got back on the boat, and you could see the swarming fish going wherever there was a boat. They knew that food was there. They are smart little devils.

There was an Israeli couple who started chatting us up. They kept telling me that we should go and visit Isreal. They also thought that I was from Poland because I told them I visited there once. I tried to tell him otherwise, and he said he understood, but then later, he brought it up again, talking about what it's like being from Poland.

We drove in the boat around two islands that are connected by a sandbar during low tide. There is also a tiny island in between. We didn't get to walk on the sandbar, but we went around to the second island and stayed on the beach for a bit. Luc and I did some more snorkelling and finished off the underwater camera. I don't think the pictures are going to be suberb for a couple reasons. One, it's a single use camera. Second, the water was not too clear becuase the water was choppy and throwing up sand. Phi Phi's waters were so much better, and the fish on Phi Phi were a lot more varied and colourful. This place had so many sea urchins. I was afraid to walk around there because of the amount of urchins.

We then went to Rai Leh beach. I don't know if you got this commercial in Canada, but in Korea, there was a commercial for Pepsi that had a bunch of soccer players in it, even David Beckham (let's be honest, he's the only soccer player I know). They are playing all over Thailand, even on this beach. We're coming to realize that there is a lot of places in Thailand that are in commercials and movies that we've seen. We had lunch here, and got to hang out on the beach for awhile.

Finally, we went around Rai Leh to Princess Cave. Legend has it that an unmarried princess died here. Because of this fisherman have set up a shrine to her, and are contstantly leave wooden phalluses for her. This, apparently, is to appease her, and she in turn helps the fishermen with good catches. This cave is mighty impressive, and with the water surrounding it a warm green colour, you can see why the bungalow by it is an insanely priced 5 star resort. Only the richest of the rich can stay there. At this point, it started to rain a lot, but it was the end of the tour. The trip back to Phuket was a little more somber because of the weather. For the rest of the night, Lucas and I went for dinner, and then tried to do a little shopping.

Today is our last full day here. We took our time leaving the hotel, and are now just biding time until we figure out where we're staying tonight. Since we have to be at the airport at 6am, we need to find somewhere close to the airport. We've been told there are some hotels by the airport, and so we're going to somehow make our way up there to check it out. The trick is to figure out how to get to the airport. That's our task for the day.