Phuket Trip Day Three!

October 12th, 2010. 

Today we were going to explore some of the other islands that surround Phuket Island.  My day started out pretty interestingly.  Pa-Dee (the lady looking after us) got lost a few times on our way to Ratachan Pier, but we found it eventually.  The boat that we rode on was extremely nice.  The seats were plushy, and reclined a bit, and ooh, it was awesome.  The only downside was that the water was a little rough. 

We docked at Phi Phi Island.  There are two islands, but we only got to explore one because the water was too rough and the people worried about us going out and getting seasick on our trip over to the other island, so we only stayed on one island (the main one.)

 Our first  (and really only) stop of the day was snorkling, and this is the location that we snorkled at.  It wasn't the best snorkling that I have ever done, but its definately not the worst either.  There was a bigger variety of fish (compared to my first snorkling adventure in Trang), and there were more coral.  We were given the option of going on an hour long snorkling tour, or spending the entire day on the island.  I knew that I would have a few hours on the island after the snorkling, and I really didn't feel like shopping, so I chose to go and do the snorkling.  There was four of us who went snorkling, everyone else stayed on the shore. 

A close up look at where we snorkled.  The water was teh perfect temperature, not to warm, but not cold at all.  It was a really beautiful location.  The person in the picture is Kimberly (the german girl).  It was awesome. 

 Ahh! The wonders of having an underwater camera.  It was quite funny listening to some of the girls talk about the "spikey things in the water".  In other words...sea urchins.  They couldn't figure out what they were, and they were tempted to swim down and touch them to see what they were.  I told them that they probably didn't want to touch them cause they could be poisenous (I coudn't remember about that) and explained to them what they were.  Needless to say, I felt very smart after that conversation
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 The water was a bit murky, making it hard to take good photos, but this is one type of coral that we saw a lot of at this particular island.  I hope that you can see that it is a vibrant blue, but in real life (not in a picture) it is brighter and really beautiful to look at.

 One of the little fishies swimming around the coral.  There were quite a few different types of fish floating around, but the main ones that we saw were like the fish we saw in Trang (the first set of snorkling pictures on my blog.)  We were given bread and fruit rinds to throw into the water so that we could have the fish swim around us, it was pretty cool. 

 This is a common scene for me now.  These are the fishing boats that all of the fishermen use.  I was shocked to see so many though.  I am used to seeing a few, at most 10, but there were lots of these...like over thirty! They were all just lining the beach.  I didn't spend to much time at the beach because it wasn't a very clean beach.  Anyways, I thought this was a cool picture.

 This is the beach where we spent a little time (the dirty one in the picture above.)  The only dufference is that this is a different section of the beach where it was cleaner, and a lot less boats.  You can see (not very well, but kind of) the contrast between the locals and the tourists here.  The locals have these cool little fishing boats, and the tourists get the fancy speedboats that can be seen in the background.  Not all of the speedboats are tourists though, some of them are dedicated to snorkling and diving.  I checked out some of the diving, but I didn't have enough time on the island to go diving, or to even find out whether the div

 Another view of all of the boats lining the beach.  These boats are extremely loud and ditry.  When I say dirty I don't mean in the sense that they have garbage everywhere, but in the sense that they are really bad for the environment.  They spit out black smoke, and its pretty bad.  But they are quite fun to ride in :)

 Food.  One of the most amazing desserts I eat here is called Loti, or Roti, depending on who you talk to.  Some people (most people actually) don't pronounce "r" and they pronounce it as "l", so at times it can get confusing for me to decipher what they are saying.  Anyways.  Roti is a thin layer of pastry covered in sweetened condensed milk, sugar, and you can put stuff inside.  I have had banana, egg, and have them plain.  The other people here had Nutella put in theirs, but I don't really like Nutella so mine was plain :). 

 This is the lady cooking the Roti for us.  We ordered a lot...5 plates of Roti...but it was soo good.  We also got smoothies here.   Mine was Pineapple, mango, and someother fruits.  A-roi mak mak! (Very delicious!) haha. 

 This is a sign that I found amusing on the way out to the boat.  It was a really cool sign though, and it got the idea across.  In case you can't read it it says : Warning Our Body Is Not A Life Buoy.  Haha it was quite funny. 

So that was our day at Phi Phi Islands.  I had gotten a bit seasick on the way back, which wasn't enjoyable, but it didn't deter from the day at all.  It was just slight bump in the road.