Dry Season My ASS!!

So apparently the monsoon season started early this year. LUCKY ME! So we decided to head to the Andaman coast ... which is the west coast of Thailand for you geography buffs. And is has poured down rain everyday. A guy that i met that lives here said that it has rained at least once a day for the past 3 weeks. That being said.... it is still freaking beautiful... i am just enjoying the beauty while i am soaking wet. I found out that Disney is a fraud.... The movie "Pirates of the Caribbean" with Johnny Depp wasn't filmed in the Caribbean at all..... it was filmed right here at the beach that i went today. How awesome is that??? I totally felt like a pirate all day today. It was a total throw back to the days when my aunt wanted to buy one of those little kid dog collar things so i wouldn't run off to any character i saw at Disney land... seriously giddy.

So we took a bus from the bus station to Ao Nang this morning. But this was a local bus.... so that means that it waits at the bus stop until the bus is completely full before we leave. But the bus ended up not filling.... so we spent the next 30 minutes cruising the town honking at people to see if they wanted to go to Ao Nang.... and thankfully cruising the strip for hotties works every time. We filled the bus and was on our way. We hired a long tail boat and crammed on that sucker and headed out to Railay... one of the worlds rock climbing meccas (so now me and Vida have went to some of the best scuba sites and rock climbing sites... but do neither). The view was straight out of Pirates of the Caribbean. Huge rocks jutting out of the ocean in crystal blue/green looking water with white powdery sand beaches. Vida decided that she didn't really want to do anything.... so I ditched her and did my own thing. Ended up meeting up with some French girls that I met on the bus and we went exploring the island. We ended up going to this cave that has a story to tell. Legend is that a ship carrying an Indian princess crashed off shore of Railay. Her spirit then was left in a local cave (Tham Phra Nang - Holy Princess Cave). So local fisherman come to this cave and throw huge wooden dicks into it (sorry for the language but a fair amount of my family wouldn't know what a large wooden phallus was... so that ones for you Gma) in order to appease the princess' spirit so that she will make the ocean fertile and produce lots of fish. It was freaking hilarious.... some of these suckers were as tall as I am. Don't worry. I got lots of pics... all tasteful... well... at least most of them. And being the DRY season here in Thailand... it poured down rain so we retreated to the only place we knew where to go.... the bar. Ended up drunk and having to take a longtail boat back home in the storm.... but that just adds to the true pirate experience.