New phase new look

And so we finish our Krabi phase... and the beginning of a new time deserves a new look, and here it is! To my surprise Russ didn't freak as much as you would think. I guess he was trying to be nice... I am stoked. Love it so no words if you think otherwise! : )

Anyhow, off to Phuket tomorrow, much lighter with less hair but with a fat wallet. Two new solar panels on the way! Yeah! We have a very busy month ahead of us with plenty of shopping (for the boat obviously) to do and setting up for the long journey ahead. We will be covering in the next 6 months about the same distance we did in the last 3 years!!! Holly Molly!

Krabi

We've been in Krabi for the last 2 weeks and are still loving it. The day charters are a heap of fun plus money. We have already saved for 2 new solar panels, just 4 batteries to go! Time is going fast so we have decided to stay here only till the end of the month then start getting organized to go Sumatra. We have decided to bring our date forward to early march rather than late march.





Here are some photos of our surroundings and games!

JUMPING RUSS!

AMAZING VIEWS FROM THE LOOKOUT... Our anchorage and the Railey East

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Hope you all have an amazing new year and that you are already charging into 2009 with renewed energy!

We spent ours in Ko Lanta, a lovely peaceful island southeast of Phuket. We saw hundreds of lanterns being released into the air, loaded with good wishes and we didn't wast time in putting ours in the air, after all we have a full on year ahead of us! Amazingly the loaded lantern managed to take off into the sky and there it stayed till it merged with the others out of sight. Then the fireworks started! AMAZING! A very loose affair, Thai style, with those ticking time bombs buried into the beach sand. Just brilliant, literally. We explored the island on the following days and apart from the elephant traffic it was all without incidents.

We are now in Railey/Krabi area, rock-climbing central. All the limestone hills here have people scrumbling up them. We love the place and have tried to do some day charters here. A bit embarrassing approaching people on the beach etc, but Russ is great at it and we have scored 3 charters on our first week! How awesome is that? Good money too. So we are not moving at until the end of the month! We are loving it.

THIS IS OUR ANCHORAGE IN RAILEY