We took a ferry across to the mainland (3 hours). Not a bad boat, but it appears we had a tailwind. We were cruising at about 15knot, with a 15.1knot tailwind. Everywhere else had a nice cooling breeze, we were in completely...still...air. 30 degrees, 100% humidity.
Our Ferry, The SS Phi So Fshit
Under sail, note the completely flacid flag on the stern.
Still, the Gulf of Thailand was beautiful. Here we are getting close to Don Sak.
At the ferry landing (Dan Sak) we took a tourist bus to Surat Thani, which was the major town on this side of the peninsula. Through two Sangthatew rides we got from the bus stop to a travel agent who could give us a ticket for the bus and back to the bus stop (does this make sense? it did at the time) where we got on a rather ant-infested bus to Krabi, across the spine of the peninsula, from the Gulf of Thailand to the Adaman Sea. Every step of this trip led to less white faces, we were the only non-locals on the last bus across the peninsula. It was Friday, it seemed the bus was dominated by kids taking the bus home from school on the weekend.
The sun set during this trip, and it was spectacular as we drove through a jungle of karst cliffs as the sun went down (non-geo-types, Google "karst". It is really cool to us Geo-types).
The Bus dropped us, after dark, at an abandoned bus station. The station was lit by the red neon and Christmas lights of the adjacent businesses. All these businesses were open, and there were several friendly young ladies sitting out front of each. Bless Tig's innocence, I had to point out to her that we were surrounded by whorehouses.
Anyway, we found a nice place top stay in Krabi, and it is a great town. City on one side of the river, Mangrove swamp on the other side. Beautiful. Will post more before we get to Ko Jum.
No internet at Ko Jum, so don't pnic if you do not hear from us for a few days.
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"Our Ferry, The SS Phi So Fshit"
I think this ferry was named by Snoop Dogg.
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