Day 26 - 29 Railay

Imagine arriving in a bay that looks as though God has been playing with a melting pot of limestone, chucked a few rocks down into the ocean, and poured the rest of the melting substance over the top so it drips and then drys like icicles. Add jungle, coconut palms, mangroves, white stretches of sand, jade coloured water and a littering of resorts on the shores and you have Railay. We arrived by longtail boat, which sounds like  a motorbike and looks extremely labour intensive to maneuver. Our boat driver took us as far as he could until it was all ashore, wading through the mud and mangroves with our packs on our back. We stayed at the Sand Sea resort on the West side which was a 5 minute walk from our mangrove arrival on the East. We soon realized this may be one of our favourite stops, with so much to explore... We had some huge days and there is no better feeling than your head hitting the pillow in utter exhaustion after a meaningful, inspiring, and physical day. Some of the highlights included climbing up "the mudslide of death", the reward a magical view at the top. I really didn't think I was capable of pulling my body up that gigantic cliff, it was fear more than anything but determination = suprisingly pleasent results ohh and I had some help...Mr Beavis managed to carry the bag, my shoes, scale up and down the bank like a monkey, and give me a hand at the same time. After the climb we made our way through tangled tree roots to Ao Phra Nang beach to wash the red clay from our legs and bake/age our bodies a little bit more in the sun.  Yesterday we hired a kayak and set out for the surrounding bays, and limestone caves. With the weather on our side we decided to venture out to the outer unhabitated Islands, which was absoloutley worth the 20km round trip row, and mind games to get us there. We spotted some strange looking sealife, and naked french people,  experinced absoloute silence in the middle of the ocean (something we havent heard for a long time), sheltered near the mouths ofthe cave from the blearing sun, found some of the best swimming spots on the trip so far, and Mike got a nasty jelly fish sting on his lip. Unfortunately our stay here is coming to an end as we prepare for an early morning to our next destination Koh Samui.