What a day! We got a wake up call at like 6:00am from the hotel staff... Had some delicious breakfast at about 7:00ish and then off to Port Hopper Resort to grab some snorkel gear and hitch a ride to the "jetty" (which was actually a plank of wood about a foot high and about 4 foot long) to board the boat.

The ride out to Phi Phi was long but pretty cool. The boat (had three outboards) was quite fast and a little rough over some of the waves made by other boats, but was cool. We just had a quick look at Phi Phi, we didn't actually get off. We then went around to Monkey beach and had a snorkel in the water not to far from shore. Adz and I took this opportunity to swim to shore and get up close and personal with the monkeys. Then on the swim back tot he boat, my left flipper broke so my swim was a little longer... Lucky I have big muscles and am a good swimmer. Once back on the boat, we travelled the 100 or so meters to shore by boat (Duh! Could have just stayed on the beach and met them there...) to get up close and personal with the monkeys again... By this time there were STACKS of other tourists trying to feed them and not loose an arm or an eye.

(A little worried about Adz right now. He went to the scooter man a while ago to get our deposits back and had not returned.... Hmmm... Hope he wasn't rolled.../ He should be collecting 6000B)

Back to the day...

After Monkey beach we did a doughy around a huge and gorgeous lagoon and bay where I think some of "The Beach" was filmed. Then off to Maya Bay where most of the film was made. We did some swimming and snorkeling here and it was great. We also went ashore and did a little bit of snooping... We saw the tail end of Lohsama (Bin Ladden - hehehe) Bay. I love snorkeling. I feel safer in the water than I do on a scooter... hehehe...

We then went to another beach to "relax" but it was absolutely PACKED! Every single other Island tour boat (about 12 in all, most of which had at least 35 passengers and one which might have had 50 or more, plus a few long tails) was there as well trying to "relax". There were also some people there trying to sell drinks. Imagine that, someone in Thailand trying to sell you something... Weird.

While on this beach, looking back to the mainland, you could see it was pissing down! There were huge storm clouds in the sky moving towards us. The dark clouds were right over head, but we missed the rain, luckily. The water got very choppy so the ride home was rough as guts. The boat was slapping the water so hard I thought either it'd snap, or I would from the shock of it hitting the water so hard.

Back on land, we headed home (so I could get on the pooter and write this) and now we are waiting for our transfer to the "FantaSea" show. Can't wait... Mostly for the food for now coz I am STARVING! Our tour was a half day tour (still took like 8 hours though)and the cheapest one and didn't include lunch, so we were limited to on board snacks, which were good, but now I need some real food!

(OK Adam's back now... all is good!)

Apparently the buffet tonight is amazing. The tour dude just stopped in to give me an overview of what will happen and he said the food hall seats 4000 people and the food consists of an international menu from 5 different countries! I hope Australia is one of them... Coz I'm really hankering for a decent steak!

Anyway... Adam is hanging for the computer I think so I had better say bye...

BYE!

Nee x x x

PS - We met some fellow Aussies today.. They're from Perth. Nice folk. We might see them tonight at the show... Copy cats. :D

PPS - I'm only writing this one to annoy Adam... hehehe :P

PPPS - And this one...

PPPPS - Sorry about the poor sphelling and grandma! :D