It’s been a long time since our last post, we’ve spent the last 8 nights in quiet Koh Jum. Koh Jum is a small island between Krabi and Koh Lanta; no electricity, nothing to do really except go to the beach, snorkel, read, etc. We stayed at Andaman Resort which has rows of brightly painted a-frame houses along the beachfront.
It was an extremely lazy week, we had some great food (the best so far in Thailand) and met some great people during our stay; the locals were really nice and the foreigners we’d met had been coming to the island for a long time. One man from France has been coming to Koh Jum for the last 8 years, even during the Tsunami. The people from the island have given him some land to build a home and surprised him a few days back with a repaired long-tail boat; painted in yellow, red and green with ribbons on the bow.
The sunsets on Koh Jum were particularly beautiful, with the sun setting directly over the Phi Phi islands and different every night. We started an impressive shell collection along with sand-dollars. Excited on seeing the first one, as we continued walking we found one after the other. 
We are now back in Krabi and staying in Noppharat Beach. The tide gets so low in the afternoon that you can walk to the nearby islands. We walked to a couple of islands yesterday; so many little crabs, starfish, snails and fish. 
Tomorrow we are leaving for Khao Lak and the Similan Islands where Matt will be scuba diving. The pictures of the Similian Islands (check online) look amazing and the underwater life is said to be the best in Thailand (sea turtles, manta rays, reef sharks friendly, etc). Most dive trips are over night, so we’ll probably be on a boat for a few days. After that we make our journey to Koh Phangan and the Gulf of Thailand.
It was an extremely lazy week, we had some great food (the best so far in Thailand) and met some great people during our stay; the locals were really nice and the foreigners we’d met had been coming to the island for a long time. One man from France has been coming to Koh Jum for the last 8 years, even during the Tsunami. The people from the island have given him some land to build a home and surprised him a few days back with a repaired long-tail boat; painted in yellow, red and green with ribbons on the bow.
The sunsets on Koh Jum were particularly beautiful, with the sun setting directly over the Phi Phi islands and different every night. We started an impressive shell collection along with sand-dollars. Excited on seeing the first one, as we continued walking we found one after the other. 
We are now back in Krabi and staying in Noppharat Beach. The tide gets so low in the afternoon that you can walk to the nearby islands. We walked to a couple of islands yesterday; so many little crabs, starfish, snails and fish. 
Tomorrow we are leaving for Khao Lak and the Similan Islands where Matt will be scuba diving. The pictures of the Similian Islands (check online) look amazing and the underwater life is said to be the best in Thailand (sea turtles, manta rays, reef sharks friendly, etc). Most dive trips are over night, so we’ll probably be on a boat for a few days. After that we make our journey to Koh Phangan and the Gulf of Thailand.
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