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We left Krabi by ferry and unlike the way in we were first on board so had the pick of seating area.. We headed up on deck straight for the front and found a perfect sun spot all to ourselves. We stopped a couple of times to pick people up from other islands and feared our VIP area would be bombarded by fellow sun seekers but they all seemed to be uninterested with the bow instead keeping to the sides and stern.
Quite happy to have the front all to ourselves as we set off again we spread our selves out ready for the 3 hr trip. It started off well with just a few splashes of water now and then to keep us cool under the sun but before long the bow was carving through big waves and churning up sea spray by the bucket load which kept hitting us head on! Before we could wipe the salt water out our eyes another wave would hit soaking us again and again! We'd realised why nobody had fought us for our 'VIP' seats. Hoping it would subside we stayed put. By this point wringing out our clothes became pointless. The breeze picked up leaving our soaking wet bodies shivering under the sun and literally hanging on to our hats but one false move and Katy's went flying off into the sea.
With a combination of perseverance and fear of being blown overboard we stuck at it for 2 hrs until Jon managed to crawl around the edge of the boat and find a dry spot so in the last hour we just about manage to dry off before being picked up for our hotel. ( blog photo is the before pic.. After to follow).
The hotel was cheap but had looked really nice online and even had a bath. On arrival the grounds and pool looked promising but the room was pretty grim. The bath was not something you'd want to sit in or even stand in to shower but none the less it was our home for the next few days. Patong Beach was the name of the area and the smell of human faeces was pungent everywhere. There were great big drain covers every couple of feet and the grills over them were open enough to let the smells waft up. A sarong over my nose and mouth was a permanent fixture although Jon did threaten to buy me a surgeons mask or better still a respirator. On the plus side there was a huge air con shopping centre which was a nice escape from the stinky streets, where we oooed and Ahhhhed at all the stuff we couldn't buy. They also had a cinema where we watched Olympus Had Fallen (no oscars but thoroughly entertaining). We paid for the cheap seats but when we saw the theatre was practically deserted we chose to sit in a luxury two seater sofa but spent lots of the film slouched right down in case we were busted and it turned out to be a capital crime.
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