Phi Phi Islands

Hello again everyone! What a day yesterday! I went to Ko Phi Phi for some snorkelling and sight seeing early yesterday morning so I didn't get to watch the all the election coverage, although the only english news channel here is Fox News (cant stand them). Anyway way to go Obama!!

Back to Ko Phi Phi. These are the islands where they filmed much of the movie "The Beach". The views here was stunning! I was blown away again and agian. I uploaded a ton of pics of this place in the photo album too!! The tour I went on was great. I upgraded to the "deluxe" tour, which was smaller, on a speed boat (the islands are 40kms off the coast), it was all inclusive and they took us to some spots where no one else can go. All this for $100. Money well spent!

They picked me up from the hotel around 8am and took us off to the boat where we had some breakfast on the way to the first Island for some snorkelling. It had sheer walls all around that went straight into the ocean. I actually swam around the whole island in about 15mins.

Next we toured around a near by island before heading to their secret spot on another island for lunch on the beach. This spot was a sliver of an opening in the rock face walls that opened up to a little cove with soft icing sugar sand. We had the place all to our selves.

After lunch we went to another island for some snorkelling. This spot was great! There were so many soft corals and many fish. I even saw 3 black tip reef sharks!! It was amazing, they were only 10 meters away, but when I tried to get a closer look they went out to deeper water... I'm sure I'll see more when I go diving at the Similan Islands...

After the diving we headed back to Phuket and saw some jumping dolphins along the way. One cleared 8 feet out of the water! It was a nice ending to a great day.

Last night I went to my fav restaurant and said my goodbyes to the waitresses (they have been teaching me a little Thai - very nice people). Then on the way home I ran into my tuk tuk drivers Dim and Pop. They actually bought me a beer and we sat outside their little post and talked for about 2 hours!! I had to buy a round too... : ). We had to shut it down when Pops wife came to drag him home haha. Probably a good thing she did cause I woke up this morning with a pretty good headache.

This morning I'm checking out of the hotel and catching a bus up to Khao Lak to start my diver training. I'll be off on the boat for 3 days then back to land for one day, and then out again for another 3 days. So I'll update more then!

I hope everyone is doing well! Talk to you later!

Nate.