Left the hotel at 9am and headed down to the beach with the group where we all boarded a speedboat and headed off on our day tour of the local islands. We visited about 5 islands and they were all simply beautiful - Krabi beach pales into insignificance compared to what we saw today! The sea was a clear turquoise, even about 100m out from the shore you could see the bottom, and it was warm. The sand was white and the vegetation was so green. We went s...

Left for the beach yesterday at about 10am and arrived at about 12.30pm. We were checked in and at the beach by 1pm! The beach is about a 2 minute walk down the road from our hotel and I have never seen anything like it - its just beautiful. The sea is really warm, literally about 30 degrees even when its too deep to stand up, and is the clearest blue-green. We spent the afternoon sunbathing - am now loading on the aftersun as am a little pink! - and ...