Khao Lak Inn

at the third trip with manta queen 1 a fishing boat left quickly richelieu rock when we appeared. they had dropped their net when they saw us, and the net covered then the top of the rock. vic, tik, dan and mr.cru removed it successfully and we sent it together with some pictures to the similan island marine park office.

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... met so far say while you may have to work for it, public transportation is available. We were very excited to finally catch up on almost a weeks worth of lost sleep and find a decent place to stay. It turns out that quite a few guest houses in Krabi have free wireless so were excited to take advantage of that and hope it continues throughout Thailand. Once we finally found a place within our range we went around comparing tour prices for kayaking ...

so i had an interesting week last week. i had been in communique with ninny for a few weeks and she wanted to come out to khao lak and check it out. me being the idiot that i am said ok and one day after my diving trip there she was in all her crazy thai glory. things went pretty decent for the first 3-4 days but at the 4 day mark i was sending her on her way with a few kind words and my size 12 sandal planted firmly in her ass. i ...

... to waste - even the snack options were eagerly depleted! One other interesting occurrence while on the boat, was the sighting of a Bangladeshi refugee "ship" that had probably been at sea for the past five or six days. These people had no food, water or shelter and it felt very incongruous in this beautiful setting, with a number of luxury boats surrounding them, before there deportation. At least all the boats did ...

... Tag mit wund**schoenem Wett** belohnt! Das Boot hatte Betten fu** 24 Teilnehm**, Simone und ich haben uns eine Kajuete mit einem "Doppelbett" geteilt, ziemlich klein, ab** es hat g**eicht. Denn nach 4 Tauchgaengen pro Tag, schlaeft man sowieso ein, egal wie bequem das Bett ist... Morgens um 7 sind wir geweckt worden und dann gabs das **ste Breefing ueb** den **sten Tauchplatz "East of Eden" bei den Similan Inseln. ca. um 8 gings ins Wass** und wir ...

... Married'. Jem's face was a picture! We thought it was just going to be a bit of fun cheering them on their way to the ceremony. But no, it was going to be much more than that - and Aileen and I, [and Mike, if only we could find him!] were going to play a central role in the affair. 'What?' - we were still in T shirts and shorts, dripping wet from the pool and the Chengs were dressed up to the nines. Good grief! Mad dash back to the room to ...

... other side?" "Is there actually anyone looking out for my safety here?" "I bet the risk assessment on this one makes for interesting reading ..." I gradually came to the conclusion that no-one running this project was looking out for me, so I'd better concentrate on looking out for myself, therefore pacing myself and checking the sturdiness of trees became my focus. Even so, there was one occasion on the way up when the undergrowth I was using to ...

... by Khun Lak (the ESL director). The high school has an impressive vocational training program that includes hospitality/hotel training, farming/fishing, home economics that teach clothes making, soap carving, flower making and other traditional arts and crafts. That's the update for the first 4 days here on Khao Lak, I'll be sending new stories and new pics in a few days.

... orders some Thai food only to find some mossie's in it!! After removing them, he tries to eat it, but it really is quite terrible. Our bus journey continues rather uneventful. At 6am we pull into a second petrol station (which is closed) 20mins out of Chang Mai. All passengers must disembark before climbing on board various mini-buses. We make our final part of the journey to our guest house. We are offered showers and beds until 10am when we depart for our trek. EXCELLENT.

Oh my god. Another 0530 start. We manged to get a tuk-tuk driver to take us the 12km to the historical park, quite an extraordinary distance for him I think, we had to call in to the petrol station on the way! The park was alrady open when we arrived at0600 and we hired bikes, the old school sit up and beg sort with no gears and made tracks for the temple action. Unfortunately the sunrise was unsensational, but the chilled atmosphere was and we were able to beetle about ...