Kayaking fun
Hello friends, I'm writing to you despite my extremely tired upper body. A day of climbing followed by a day of kayaking does a sore upper-body make. Yet, fun was had by all! I really love being on the water. I also love the feeling of paddling.
I was in the back of the kayak and a young English lady wearing copious amounts of foundation was in the front. Why put on make up to go kayaking? One of life's great mysteries.
We spent the day paddling through mangroves and karsts, and into lagoons. We encountered monkeys several times on the way. Unfortunately, it seems that people feed them. They were definitely waiting for us...and then they jumped into our kayak! And one ran across my leg! Monkeys are way cuter when they're not climbing on you. We saw them swimming, which was really, really cute.
In the afternoon we went to an area where salt and fresh water meet and there's an interesting ecosystem overlap. It was lovely.
I uploaded more photogs for your viewing pleasure. You reap the benefits of the high speed internet connection in Krabi! Ten bonus points to the person who can guess what movie I remind myself of in the rock climbing photos (hint: I'm sporting a tiny pony tail).
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/laurenemilywinter27/
Tomorrow I head to Khao Lak, where hopefully I can arrange some diving off the Similan Islands.
posted by Lauren at 6:28 AM
2 Comments:
Lauren...
Your most recent rock climbing and kayaking photos were excellent. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to sent them out to your admiring audience. One doesn't need a very vivid imagination to get an idea of the thrill and excitement that you must be experiencing on a nearly daily basis.
The photo of you, or another climber, silhouetted in the high distance was superb......I may try to make it one of my screen savers, along with the sunset shot from Ko Lipe. It's getting difficult to decide on a favorite. If they get any better, I may have to resort to the dreaded "manufactured superlatives" to express myself.
Ten bonus points.....hmmmm.....that's hard to pass up without making a stab at it......I was thinking Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" but then Eva Marie Saint was wearing high heels while scrambling around on Mount Rushmore wasn't she?........and I don't think that she had even the tiniest of pony tails. (zero bonus points?_)
There are a lot of folks in the upper midwest who are envious of you this frigid weekend. Not because of the sub-zero weather here but because of all the Superbowl hype that we're going to be exposed to.
George
7:18 PM
Dude. I'm terrified of monkeys! Were they really scary? And fast? They seem like tiny, irrational, super agile people to me, where biting is an excepted part of society. Run away!
12:53 AM
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