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Published: October 25th 2006
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Railey
My view on railey. tidy stuff Finally escaped the hustle and bustle of bangkok, much to my relief. think i spent a day or two too long there. stupidly took the five quid bus overnight down to Surat Thani, which was nice. well actually it was pure hell, i ended up spending 14 hours on the top deck of a bus that swayed more than the ferry does, plus we had officially the slowest driver on the planet. quite worried about my stuff being knicked on the way down in the hold of the bus. heard bad things and even considered hiding my money down my underwear. fortunately no need for this, the swaying kept me awake all night long aswell as the horrendous thai pop music that was on the karaoke on the front tv of the bus. oh joy, still, makes a nice change from that friggin rooster. arrived at Surat at 7am (ish) and were told that out next bus would be along soon. now was decision time, do i head to the fine beaches on the west coast or those on the east coast? seeing as i didnt know how to pronounce ko pha ngan properly, i chose krabi. the people next to
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more railey my bungalow have found this decision making process to be utterly hilarious. finally rolled into krabi about 1pm, checked out the beaches and decided i'd stay in the 3quid rooms, instead of the 3000 a night littering the beach 5 mins away. i get to use their beach for free, so i guess i have the last laugh. plus my room has the added bonus of free pets. i've made a friend in a gecko (now called charles), and a bat who decided to make my pad the batcave and dissapear everytime i thing i have got rid of him, only to return and piss me off when i try to sleep. things being too good to last, i found my nemesis again the next morning with another bloody rooster. i now officially hate chickens/roosters as much as i hate the english football team. (that's a lot). figured i'd stay here for a few days, met some cool guys across the road from me who are bumming around and heading up to laos today. met a few yanks too, very nice people, didnt realise wales was a country, or how to spell it. (i actually watched the dipshit write 'Whales')
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my view from my bungalow took it upon myself to sample the delights of Railay (i'm on the east, but the west is where the real fine beaches are), so a ten minute walk through the jungle with the gibbons (they're ok, they leave the noise til later in the day) and i ended up on paradise and decided to do some snorkelling.
my guide for the day was a dubliner called joe, who looked like a cross between a young george best and a wrecked up keith richards. he spoke like a true irishman, with his favourite word being 'fuck' and didnt seem exactly with it. as i found out later on, he wasnt really, and maybe shouldnt take anyone snorkelling as a guide. so the 24 of us hopped into some boats and flew off into the ocean to another island in the mid afternoon to boogie with the fishies. my first time snorkelling was not fun, between the hyperventilating and paranoia about whatever was touching me, i noticed that sea urchins are evil little balls of spikes with evil eyes and were everywhere i went. so the first site was not a success, especially when an indian guy stepped on one
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This little bastard or its hubby is satan itself and screamed like a big girlie. then a large american lady tried to climb into the boat, couldnt pull herself up, fell backwards into another boat and had to be carried ashore in a scene not too far outta jaws. that was fun. she didnt quite agree. finally mastered the art of breathing through a snorkel and it was real good fun, until the weather turned and we were in the middle of a storm. few miles from shore, in the sea, waves getting bigger and pissing with rain. being an excellent guide, he himself showed us how not to do things by getting lost, choking on sea water and thinking the boat had left without him. he (wisely) decided it was time to stop and we got back into the boat and headed off (unwisely) to have food. good idea, we were hungry, could watch the sun set and have a beer. however, tide was out, boats ran ashore, more sea urchins and after finally getting onto the island, he informed us that we would be shipwrecked for a while, as the food had to be collected and cooked on the mainland. rain started again, sun went down, no
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more again, those big cliffs will be what i attempt to climb food yet, but beer. surprisingly it all turned out fine and we had a seafood curry in the dark with some yanks, aussies, czechs, english, irish and singaporeans (???). best was saved til last, we headed towards the mainland (railay - south of phuket) in the pitch black and the boat stopped. next thing we knew, he had jumped into the sea and showed us the phosphoresence effect. this is where the algae in the sea burst when disturbed and gives off glowing little effects. this was the best thing i had ever seen and we all ended up jumping in for a dip. (mum, go to the dvd cabinet and watch the beach, shit film, but you'll see this effect and you'll see where i am headed next).
so that was my fun time in railay. think i will spend the next few days bumming around some more, top up the tan and learn how to rock climb, i fugured it would be a good cure for my fear of heights. or just plain dumb. probably the latter. must dash back to the batcave, i have this horrid feeling my arse is going to resemble the batmobile in
Snorkelling
Where we snorkelled, urchins somewhere in there too about 5 minutes.
i will update once again if i do anything exciting, or just care to rub your noses in it. weather is still too freaking hot, though there is quite a bit of rain and thunder in the evenings.
(mum/dad, will stay in railay til about the 29th ish, may do phi-phi tomorrow for a day, then head to the east coast and head to ko pha ngan - if i've mastered pronounciation)
have fun kiddies, and if you happen to see a rooster anywhere, chop off their bollocks so they cant contaminate the rest of the world with more and bugger my sleep patterens. oh and i found out this morning that thai spiders jump and move quicker than i can see. this therefore sucks.
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Other than "annoying little bastard", does your resident bat-mate (see what i did there? clever huh?) have a name as similarly original as Charles? P.S. No more photos - uber-jealousy setting in.