Gas Dot: Phi Phi and Phuket

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Phi Phi and Phuket

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Well,
Since arriving at Phi Phi islands, very beautiful, I managed to fit in 7 dives in the first 3 days of being there. I was able to test out my underwater camera and it surprised the hell out of me. It managed to survive the 6 dives I took it on, go down to 30m twice. Out of about 160 photos I managed to get about, um... welll.... 10 good photos. I had this habit of taking a shot either too close, or the wrong focus, but I can't wait to delevop the roll I took snorkeling at maya bay "The Beach", didn't see our friend leo there, although there was this crazy british chick trying to convince everyone to start up the perfect island community, weird. It has been the most relaxing place so far, so relaxing the thought of typing an email to let you guys know whats happeing seemed like to much effort.
Besides the diving, I took sophie snorkeling for the first time, just off a beach at first, then 2 days later we took a boat tour of Phi phi lay (where 'the beach' is). We went to some amasing reefs, so many fish, so beautiful. On the boat, nath, an american guy from south carolina, and myself could throw tiny bits of bread around sophie and his girlfriend and fish would swarm around them. It was so much fun, hearing the girly screams.
Did lots of lying around, watched heaps a movies on the pay channels, watched some thai boxing, watched lots of the scandinavians, man, so many swedes, and im not talking about the vegetable.

Anyways, at patong beach now, on phuket, man, every guy here has a thai girl attached to them, either that, or a thai guy. Its such a weird place, think The cross on steroids, massive bars, girls, people offerring lots of shows, fire shows, dancing shows, ping pong shows, noodle shows (was intriged by this one), mouse shows (I just didn't want to think about that one). So loud, we got a backpackers room accross the road from the main strip Bang la. I think the sub woofer under the floorboards stopped around 4am. I managed to sleep like a baby for once, but soph didn't. The beache's here again, word of the email, amasing. The music choice on the other hand, really bad. I have no idea why emotional rock is a tropical soundtrack, its like everyone who runs a bar has growing pains to get through, or they put on donovan and simon and garfunkel, I can handle that a little, or a early 80's cover band doing donovan or the funkelmaster, whats the deal. The only escape is to find the sweet sweet sounds of bob marly.

Today hopefully we can find a place to stay and fly to singapore tomoz, again another early morning flight.

hope you'all's doin well.

cheers,

-jamie

posted by Jamie Nimmo @ 10:57 PM

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