Ko phi phi trip was awesome. The beaches and coastlines smash Patong beach a mile into the ground with a sledge hammer.You know when you see photos of a place and are slightly dissapointed with the reality of the situation? Like when i went to the rome collosium I expected it to be bigger and with fewer scafolding polls.Anyway Ko Phi phi was not like that. Parts of it were like the photo on a perfect postcard in every direction. Honestly it was fucking awesome, and i recomend it to anybody (but do it as part of a tour to get into all the little coves and crevices, the main beach with the hotels isnt as good, they charge you 40bhat just to piss).
As part of the day trip we went snorkeling and i tried out my Kodacs underwater features for the first time. Ive not seen the results on anything other than the screen of the camera but they look reasonably good. the water wasnt totaly clear so over 2-3 meters the water appeared murkey. at short range it still looked good (from what i can tell so far anyway).The camera didnt break due to water damage and bad seals either which is a good thing and my main consern. The battery was ok, i was turning it on and off all day and in total took about 50 photos and 15 minutes of 60fps, 720p HD video footage. If you want to film a sporting event you will be annoyed at the battery length, but for a snorkeling trip with only conservative recording it was good.It still had enough battery left at the end of the day to play back all the videos and look through the photos. Saying that though you could probably get a spare battery for not much money and two batterys would last for plenty of time.
My Thai phone broke today due to water damage. It was safe during all the snorkeling and beach trips, but i had it in my swim short pockets on the way home and took a shower with my swim shorts on. I forgot to take it out. Why dont they make phones waterproof? ....Oh right, so you need to buy another every time it breaks. More money for big buisnesses.
I also got two more trips booked for tomorow and the day after round some of the other islands. These trips are also at local price (half price) thanks to my Thai hosts.
This evening we went out to eat sea food. Clams fish, and some other creature that lives in a snail like shell. I have no idea what it was but it tasted like muscles or something
(pic is a self portrait of my feet on my Kodak)
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