Railay Bay

Bear with me this is a longer blog since we didn't have internet in our room.
Railay bay is beautiful. The water is so warm. The water is all different colors depending on how the sun hits it and the sunsets are pretty cool too. There are mountains here but you have to be a rock climber to be able to go up them. The mountains have stalactites hanging down from all over. The rock is different colors and it’s neat to see all the colors mixed together in such beautiful swirls and patterns. Everything is so green around here too. There are only a handful of restaurants here and all but 1 of those is resort restaurants. The other one, Flametree Restaurant, is in “Downtown Railay.” Downtown Railay is really just a little strip with shops on either side, probably about 10 shops in the whole area. When we got here we had to transfer from the big boat (there were probably 30 people on it) onto a long tail boat to come into the bay. That was interesting because we had packed into 2 bags. The large suitcase had the 2 smaller suitcases inside of it as well as all of Brad’s clothes and the backpack had all of my clothes and the swimming stuff. The suitcase was HEAVY; it took Brad and a Thai guy just to lift it to its next destination. Then when we finally landed on Railay, we landed on the east side and had to get to the west side. It’s not that far of a walk…when you know where you are going. There were no signs telling us which way to go to get to our resort so we just followed other people who sounded like they knew what they were doing. We did make it to our resort but not before we were soaked from the humidity. We immediately got into our swimsuits and hit the pool, then the ocean. During our stay here we have eaten at all the restaurants except the ones at the really nice resort, you have to dress up to go there and we didn’t bring any appropriate clothes, and when the rooms start at $500 a night we figured the food wouldn’t be the most affordable either. We have tried to go sunset snorkeling twice and would have tried a third time but the weather Tuesday morning and night as well as all day Wednesday was too much for the boats to be able to come and get us and both of our trips were canceled. Then we were going to kayak but again the weather decided it had other plans, if it hadn’t been for the lightning we would have gone out, even in the rain. So, I finished my third book during the trip and am now on my last one so I’m trying not to read too much. We went to a different beach yesterday, it is really probably the expensive resort’s beach but there were a lot of other people there too. On our way from the path out onto the beach Brad was showing me a map of the bay and when I looked up I saw a tail hanging down and then more tails, we were watching the monkeys come out of the mountains onto the beach for their afternoon snack. There were people selling bananas so that we tourists could feed the monkeys, we bought two. Brad and I each fed the monkeys and Brad even got one to climb in his lap for the banana but I didn’t have the camera ready and missed the shot. They were so cute, there were 3 tiny little baby monkeys clinging to mommy’s tummy and some adolescent looking monkeys and then the adult monkeys. It was so cool to see them so close and to feel them climbing on you to get a banana. In the rain Brad and I have done a lot of reading, in a little napping and played a couple games of cards, score is 5 to 3, I’m winning. So we’re leaving here tomorrow to head to Koh Samui. We leave at 11am so hopefully the rain will keep itself in check until we are dryly in the airport, if today is any indication though, we’ll be soaked through before we get anywhere near the airport. Ta ta for now!