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Koh Phi Phi Don

Diving, that's what Line and Jon wanted, so we headed for Phi Phi. According to the bible not as good as Koh Toa, but according to the dive instructors here is better. Line and Jon wanted to do there Open Water Suba Diving and I wanted to do my Advanced Open Water. The diving, and the snorkelling here are amazing, better than Fiji, Vietnam or Australia. On my second dive I saw a Turtle, a Cutle Fish and a Leaopard Shark. Not a proper shark, it would suck you to death rather than bite you, and looked far to cute to be scarry, but, a sharks a shark. John a saw a Leaopard Shark on his dive as well. Apart from that it was pretty un-eventful, although the seas were pretty rough and it rained heavilly most days. We all past our course, even with me struggling to do complicated maths at 30m, trying to work out whether Porshce was Italian or not, and trying to spell my mums name backwards under water. The instructor said that it was probably the Nitrogen, I said I would have struggled with that on the surface underpressure, but they still past me on the deep dive section. 

We went for a walk up to a veiw point to see the main part of the island where all of the accomodation was. This was another island that got hit by the Tsunami. Boxing day 04' there were 10,000 people on the island, including 2,500 locals. After the Tsunami there were 500 missing, 700 injured and 2,500 dead, and most of the shacks destroyed on the beach. The hotels and the bigger buildings still stood and were used as first aid stations after it hit. Now the local authorities have said that the buildings have to be built from concrete and not just shacks, as most injuries were caused by collapsing roofs. This is happening in most places, at a very fast pace with wagon loads of bricks going through the streets carrying everything you need for a building from the main land, all pulled on hand carts.

When we had climbed back down from the view point we hired a sea kayak, of sorts, and went to investigate Monkey Bay. We headed for the Bay but found nothing, obviuosly the Monkeys were out for lunch, because all we found were some toasting tourists. We headed back across the bay to find a few of the waves we had seen on the way out and to surf them. There were a few big enough to surf, but not many.

For the last day on Phi Phi we went on a snorkelling tour to the surrounding islands and to 'Maya Beach', where 'The Beach' was filmed, Leonardo Di Caprio film. It's not a very spectacular beach, its covered in rocks, so swimming in the water is very tricky and not worth it. The bay is nice enough, a sheltered bay sorrpunded by high jungle covered slopes. The snorkelling on the reefs was amazing. Lots of fish, corals and eels. The water proof camera seemed to hold up, that I got in Hanoi, so I guess it isn't a fake, and got some amazing pics of underwater stuff.

It was time to say good-bye to Jon, I guess some of us have to work in this life. I needed to extend my Thai visa so we headed for the Myanmar (Burma)/Thai boarder. We got on a boat heading for Krabi (grab-bee) and Jon got on his boat to Phucket.

There wasn't much to Krabi, a small port town, but famous for it's climbing. I guess it must be further out of the city than we were, as there wasn't many tourists (Farang) around, maybe I will drop in on my way back down south again, for a few routes.

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