Phi Phi Island tour.

We jumped onto a speed boat along with far to many people for the boat. We were all squeezing onto seats or anything else we could find. Head off to our first destination Bamboo Island which was a fab looking glorious beach. It was here we had our first go at snorkelling in the shallow waters they so clear that you could see fish swimming right past you. We spotted swordfish's and loads of big speckley looking things.

Viking Caves we stopped for a bit of a photie shoot.

Next stop Pileh Bay which was really salty water, but had an awesome lagoon. We jumped in for a snorkel and bread was thrown in to attract the fish. There were heaps of various colourful fishes swimming up to eat the bread out of your hands.

Next stop was the open waters (like the film!!!) of Losamah Bay and a few of the others got out to snorkel. We decided to be a little more cautious on this one as we saw loooads of jellyfish's floating around. People were swimming right past them! There was a little boy who was in the water with his dad, and it was lucky we could spot the jellyfish from the speedboat so we shouted out to move his son away from it, in the process he almost got stung himself.

After that the weather turned nasty. We were at the front uncovered part of the speedboat and got rained on pretty badly. We decided to squeeze into the inside area of the boat along with the others. The boat was really crashing down pretty hard on the water. We were huddled in so badly that we couldn't see anything. We later found out that on our travels back we passed one of the tour spots Maya Bay (where the film The Beach was shot). This was one of the main reasons we came on this particular tour and we had missed it. Damn weather!

Anyways, we got to Phi Phi Island where we had some local Thai food which was pretty tasty. We also stopped for a spot of bargaining with the locals for some more sun glasses & to dry off from the storm.

We then hit the water again in the boat, weather a little better now. We stopped open water again for a snorkel around with the fishies. This time there were loads of fish and the coral reef underneath us was beautiful. We had a really great time swimming around and getting close to nature.

As we head out in the boat again the weather turned really nasty and the driver of the boat was driving like a maniac. The boat was hammering on the water like we were hitting rocks. We had to hold on for dear life so that we weren't chucked out of the boat. Each time the boat came down to hit the water it crashed us down with it. It really did hurt each time sending shocks right through our spine and giving us both a real headache. We couldn't wait for the journey to be over. Anyways we survived and even despite the bad boat journeys we enjoyed the day snorkelling. And might I add we didn't puke on the journey unlike this little Italian boy who could puke for his country.