Rai Lay Beach

Up sometime after 8:00. We had an inside room (no windows), so it's just darkness. We had no concept of whether it was even daylight out.

Erin went to find a place to get her legs waxed, I went for breakfast, then used internet and found out that Courtney, Chris and Shabana were in Krabi as well. They arrived this morning. They are flying to Chaing Mai tomorrow. Courtney mentioned the guest house they were in, right beside the Chan Cha Lay. Erin and I decided to go to Rai Lay Beach today, known for it's amazing limestone cliffs. On the way to the pier, we stopped at Courtney's guest house, but they were not there.

We went to the pier, a tout asked us where we were going, we told him, and he told us to wait, he was trying to fill a long tail boat with enough passengers. After about 15 minutes, enough people showed, so we were getting ready to get on the boat, and we spied Courtney, Chris and Shabana. They were just going to hang around Krabi today, but instead decided to come to Rai Lay Beach with us, so we asked the boat driver to wait 5 minutes while they got their things. 15 minutes later, they hadn't arrived, so we told the boat driver to just go, they could get the next boat. After the boat left the pier, they showed up, so he turned around and let them get on.

The boat ride was about 30 minutes. On the way to the swimming beach, we stopped at the viewpoint to get a nice view, and then started to traverse our say down to an inland lagoon. Courtney and I were here 5 years ago, we made it to the lagoon, but missed the viewpoint at that time. We didn't make the lagoon this year, it was crazy steep. I can't believe we actually rapelled our way down to the lagoon 5 years ago.

After that, made it to Hat Phra Nang beach, did some swimming, monkeys showed up and started stealing food from the tourists.

We had to catch the boat back to Krabi at 5:00. Erin and I bought a day trip to James Bond Island for tomorrow, then we all went to the night market for supper, a must do for anyone in Krabi. After supper, we said goodbye to Shabana and maybe Courtney and Chris.

I started feeling like crap, sore throat and my lymph nodes swollen.

I used internet, then to bed sometime after 10:00.