After a week of being in Thailand Ive made it to the beach! We went to Krabi and then took a speedboat out to Bamboo Island and Phi Phi Island. It is very beautiful and is the perfect location just to laze around in the sun. The water is exactly the right temparature where it cools you down but isnt at all cold! (Bit different to S Africa where sea was freezing) There are loads of tourists doing the trips out to these islands though so it does get a bit crowded but if you walk far enough along you get some space. Im now at Phuket as I write this and the beach here isnt anything like the one in the pictures - its more like Blackpool - but your never far away from the picture postcard ones if you hop on a boat