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Oh my god, Ko Phi Phi is the most amazing tiny little island ever! (Becks soz, I know you will be soooo jealous!) It has no roads, just paved pathways between two beaches which are on opposite sides of the Island about 150m apart. Other than these two sweeping white sand beaches (which get a little packed with day trippers from other shores) are lush green mountains, with the stick on trees again, and what is starting to become a hopping nightlife of bars and restaurants.
It is so weird there not being any cars or scooters anywhere - Just Thai's on push bikes who shout "meep meep" at you if you need to get out of their way!!
I met a 19 year old (arr bless) Argentinian guy called Tom on the boat over here and we have been pal-ing about together which is great. We hired a sea Kayak and went of round the edge of the Island to reveal the most secluded bay with white sand and no people... Amazing! Felt a bit like "the beach" which by the way was filmed on one of the other beaches on Phi Phi and is the book I am reading at the mo - Bizarre! The snorkelling was good too with lots of different fish. Once we had been there a while a few other Kayakers turned up a totally ruined the illusion so we set of to the other popular beach on the Island called monkey beach which you guessd it.. had monkeys on it!! Although this wasn't the highlight for me (I'm a bit monkeyed out!) it was the Sand! I've never ever seen sand like this before in my life, it was finest whitest sand like talcum powder, at which point I took the opportunity to 'donut myself' in it . . . just because I could!
The final day in Phi Phi I took myself off on a days diving trip out to a wreck and then back to one of the local sites to go shark hunting!! I soooo want to see a shark and there are leopard sharks here which look really funny. So I arrived early doors and went to pay for the trip only to realise that the was a massive gaping hole in my purse where my cash card should have been - OH MY GOD! PANIC!!!! Someone must have stolen it and I was just about to go on a full days trip and not be able to do anything about it, so I raced back to the room to check to see if it was there and it wasn't. But it just didn't make any sense because surely if they had of taken my cash card they would have taken the 10000 B (150 quid) as well#@"*??? OK Hobbs stop panicing and think where did I go. . . . well I suddenly reralised that I hadn't been anywhere other than to the cash machine so there was only one place it could have been - YES!!! in the cash machine!!!! I had completely forgotten to pick it out as they give you cash first here then the card so I raced back to the ATM shop but it was shut. By this point I was kinda thinking it might be safe as I have done this in England a few times and it just swallows the card. So with that in mind,and actually, not a lot I could do until later, I went back to the dive shop and went out for the day.
The wreck was amazing, a sunken ship from 20 years ago, with some crazy ass fish, scorpion fish, a massive banded eel, tiny little sea shrimps (4cm long) and lots more but no shark boo hoo!
Anyhow, just to finish the tale of the card card - I got it back later that night as the ATM place was and exchange place so it was manned, I just had to show my passport and it was handed over - LUCKY HOBBS!!
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