Wednesday Sept 25th

Yesterday we got up early to catch a mini van ten mins to the main pier in ao nang to head out on our long boat trip to 5 islands.

The weather was great and we set off with a bout 16 people on the boat. one guy (who we will call rambo) whos first words to everyone were "have you seen the new rambo this is the boat he goes on" - he was even wearing a headscarf like rambo! his mate was also from america and was wearing a crazy silk shirt! any way the first island we went to was called 'lading island' and was a small beach and we did some snorkling with the fishes there - the lcals use the caves there to collect swallow saliva and sell it - its worth loads of money apparently!

the next beach we headed to was a beach which separated 2 islands 'rai island' and 'pakbia island'! here american shirt guy went off and got stung by an enormous sea urchin and had to spend most of the trip on the boat - no volunteers to pee on his foot! Rambo meanwhile went off and fashioned a spear out of some bambo and went and killed the sea urchin and brought it back fr everyone to see - it was massive! these 2 islands were really nice also and the beach dissapears when the tide is high.

onto the next island which was the main one called 'hong island' where we had some lunch and had about 2 hours relaxing on the beach - it was so quiet and was just like a little clear blue lagoon you see in the movies. Rambo and shirt guy went of Khaiaking (dont know how you spell it) for 2 hours and were so burnt and came back with a collection of different things he killed!

the next place was hong lagoon which we got to through some narrow caves and was also really nice. Rambo mamaged to find a sea cucumber in the sea and kill that too!! what a guy!

anyway - The journey back to ao nang on the boat was really choppy and most people were feeling sick and head there head in their hands! we were ok tho!

In the evening we went out for some food and played sme pool in a bar and had couple beers before headng back to get some sleep - both so tired!