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