Monday, January 29, 2007

Paradise Lost

Hello friends, I dragged myself away from the perfect beach. It was a welcome respite to be in one place, with nothing to do, for several days.
I was going to take a ferry to Ko Lanta, but it was full. Instead, I'm on my way to Krabi for some sea kayaking and rock climbing. Hooray. I took the speed boat rather than the slow boat this morning and got soaked! It was fun though.
Not much else to report. Yesterday I basically did nothing--read, ate, slept on the beach and snorkelled.
Stay well!
Lauren

An addendum on my earlier post:
Mo, I'm going to Railay tomorrow! Hopefully I'll do some rock climbing and kayaking there.
I forgot to tell you guys about scuba diving 2 days ago. It was fun, but visibility was poor--about 2 meters. So far, 6 out of 6 dives I've done have had bad visibility. Hopefully it'll get better as I go north. We still some some really cool hard and soft coral, fishies, sea cucumbers, etc. There were huge boulders in the ocean that looked like pillars covered in coral. It was neat.
I'm feeling really, really tired right now. I think I stayed on the beach long enough to relax, but not long enough to sleep off the 2 months of tired that come with being in a different bed every other night and never really sleeping that well. I'm also feeling like I can't be bothered with finding transportation, accomodation, etc. I'm just too tired. But tomorrow I have to do so if I want to be on the beach and not in Krabi town. The difficult thing is that it's high season here, so there are a lot of holiday-ers (think: Cancun). This makes it difficult to find cheap, backpacker-friendly accomodation. Yet I soldier on.
TTFN,
Lauren

1 Comments:

Blogger momo said...

its so cool to know that you are in the exact same places I was last January. It sounds like missing Ko Lanta is not so bad considering it would just be more lazing around in a hammock and hard to beat your little oasis. If you do end up going over there though, be sure to check out a very cool beach restaurant called "same same but different" - its spicier than I've ever imagined spice could be. and also very delish. Otherwise there isn't much else on that island that you couldn't find where you were or in Krabii. I'm so sad I'm not with you!!! I wanna go back!!!

love,
Mo

ps-let me know if you go up to Ralay beach or au phra nang (I think that's how you spell it)

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