The REAL Beach

Let me first tell you all that this keyboard is absolute crap and there will be many mistakes. Well actually there will be none bc i like things done right but just know it has taken a lot of deleting to get this post in the current condition. I wrote the previous 2 posts at the Shanghai airport where i chilled most of the morning. Was a rather nice airport but they werent having any of me getting on an earlier flight and if you have a pint of Thai Whisky in your bag they will not be happy and will make you check it. Just some little tidbits for yas.

So back on PeePee or Phi Phi or whatever it is. The main island is Phi Phi Don and thats where the town is and the places to stay, dive shops, restaurants, etc. Then there is Phi Phi Ley and this is where the movie was filmed. Luckily they show The Beach every night so if you havent seen it then you can walk into any of about 10 bars or restaurants that will be simultaneously playing it. With DVDs for 80 baht ($2) they have them on everywhere. We saw MI3, Ice Age 2, and attempted Da Vinci Code a few times but never caught it right. Anyway we set up a sweet long tail tour around the island to see Phi Phi Ley and Bamboo Island and Monkey Beach and some other hotspots around that people like to see (ie Viking Cave). Yeah i know pretty tough to figure out names like those but they are cool places. Maya bay is where the movie was filmed and we went and checked it out for about 50 minutes bc at that point captain wanted to be moving on. Went and did some boat jumping and snorkeling, drove past Viking cave to take a picture and stopped at Monkey Beach. This place was crazy. Captain gave us bananas to feed them and they were nice but wanted the food pretty badly. They even swam out to get it - can you imagine a swimming monkey, ha. There was a german guy (the one who showed us down from the viewpoint) who happened to be on the tour and he was kneeling on the beach becoming one with nature but all of a sudden the food had run out and they were no longer happy. Quite a bad thing for this chap because after driving a scared lady into the sea they went after him and there were about 15 surrounding him and clawing at him and one bit him on the leg. He was, needless to say, freaked out the rest of the day. Quite interesting.

Had a sweet fried rice lunch and more beautiful beaach before bamboo island which has a lot of those beach pine trees that make me think of Jack Johnson. Anyway, walked around it a bit, i found a sweet tool that consisted of a stick a rock and a string. Dont know the purpose but it was certainly cool. Had a really cool snorkel seeing squid, triggers, and a whole lot of brightly colored fish. Really good water and really shows there is no need for diving.

Esto and John took off the next day for Koh Tao for some of that diving stuff and a change of scenery while Jo and I stuck around a few more days. They were rather uneventful but really nice w/ Jo learning new Poi tricks from some local guy who offered to take us climbing cheap too but it rained. Saw the Germans a few more times, lots of breakfasts at Garden Home which had a ton of pics from the Tsunami and how it was rebuilt. Did some shopping and then headed on to Koh Phangan to find Doc's land and a little bit of party.

Dont know how i can buy fake Ray Bans when i aam going to study (or here to study rather) intellectual property and world wide enforcement of things like trademarks. Hmm. Miss you guys.