Koh Phi Phi to Krabi

After our super duper camping adventure with Toby and Laura we dragged our tired asses back to our guesthouse and said goodbye to them as they left for Krabi heading for Bangkok then Chang mai. We miss them already.
We spent a very quiet afternoon napping and generally relaxing after an adventure filled few days, this R&R actually ended up lasting 2 days until we decided that for all its chams and it has oodles it was time to move on… So this morning we got up to the sound of the alarm and loaded with our packs stomped to the pier before the heat kicked in, it turned out the boat had air con and a good film on so the 2hr or so journey flew by.
As we marched down the long concrete and very new pier we passed a long line of what looked like school children waiting forthe boat to empty so they could board and it seemed the exitement had gotten to them because every one of them waved and shouted hello with all their might, it made us feel like giant celebrities walking a down red carpet sided with midgets! We decided to go it alone and left most of the other passengers behind at the tourist office while we hopped in a minivan and stopped when we saw somwhere we liked the look of. The Blue Bay Resort’s entrance is through a garage with a small office in the back corner, up a flight of stairs and its suddenly your in the middle of a lush tropical garden, mature and pristinely kept with rattan bungalows dotted about and all for 400baht with a/c… As we climbed onto the porch of our hut we saw a tiny old man probaly in his 70′s hobbling about in the buhes trimming and pruning and as friendly a person as weve ever met.
Bags dropped off we set to exploring Krabi town, its quite small and has a very similar feel to Phucket town, very few other travellers about and really friendly people. We strolled about for a while then decided to get a longtail boat around the mangroves close by and for the price he took us to a massive cave inside a giant sandstone cliff filled with huge stalegtites and at the very top in the dark what must be hundreds of bats judging by the mess on the floor below. Next we stopped at a corner to a large island which we are told has a large muslim village on, but we were there for monkeys! Obviously the monkeys know if they come and prance about when they hear the boats then they will get fed, and they did. Im no sure what kind of monkeys they were but they werent shy and one took a jump onto the boat because Georgie was holding some fruit as she scrabbled behind be sat in the middle one of the drivers tried to shoo it with a flip flop but he didnt give a shit and just sat there waiting for his banana and posing for a pic, then the other driver sprung to action with a fishing rod which the little hairy fella did not like and actually dived off the boat underwater and swam the 6ft back to the other monkeys… What struck me was the desperation the two boat drivers were trying to get the monkey off the boat with as if it would rip us to pieces all the time Georgie was snapping pics and I was laughing.
Then we went to a floating fish farm
where a chap gave us coffee and showed us what lived in his murkey floating pools around his floating shack… Big Snappy fish, all he had to do was drop the food and as quick as lightning a massive head snatched it below, he also had a puffer fish which he eagerly yanked out of the water and it puffed up to the size of a basketball and then stated spitting the water at us. We left there and headed back to the pier, Krabi is a very sleepy town and apparently not much going on of an evening so probably an early night is in order. xxxxxxx Lve love love xxxxx