July 12th, 2018
Last day in Railay July 12, 2018
The girls were up early, had breakfast and went in search of booking themselves a boat tour of the neighboring islands. There is a 400baht parks fee each, plus another 500each for a longtail and they are off. Includes snorkeling gear for one of the four stops and lunch. It doesn’t look like rain, it’s a little breezy, but I think we are in for another beautiful day, hopefully without too much sun. It’s hard to be a sitting duck out in a boat on a super sunny day.
They had a blast. One of the four islands was closed so their trip consisted of three beautiful islands including Chicken Island (which I had never heard of) it’s an island that if you ‘squint’ at it from afar, looks like a chicken (or a turtle). They snorkeled and while they saw some colourful fish, there wasn’t too too many.
Troy and I did a fair amount of walking this day as walking is really the only time my back doesn’t really hurt. Well I guess laying down too, but can’t do that ALL DAY now can we? Mostly in search of a pharmacy where I was hoping to secure some muscle relaxers. As it turns out there is one pharmacy on the whole of Railay, and despite checking three times throughout the day, it never opened. So I persevere.
I put three simple things on my list today, ice cream, massage and fruit shake. In no particular order. Not bragging or anything, but I manage to accomplish all three by 3pm, plus a banana pancake ❤️
I decided to get the ‘head, shoulder, back’ massage. Plan is, should any undue twisting/stretching occur that involves the lower back, I will just put a stop to it. It is one of the best back massages I have ever had and bless her heart, when she was done, she noticed a lot of peeling skin (the after effects of not having good sunscreen the first two days here) and she pulled a bunch of it off. Aye yai yai 😳
After chilling by the pool for a bit, we notice the tide is waaaay out and think maybe we can access Tonsai beach via sand rather than the jungle trek the back way like we have attempted twice now with extremely limited success. Sure enough we are able to traverse this rocky terrain despite my lack of proper footwear and we make it over there to see some really advanced rock climbers.
After getting our step count up, we wander over to the walking street for supper again is where most of the restaurants/bars are and we have had pretty good luck there the last two nights finding food food. The first night we ate on east Railay. I thought my meal was good (the pad see ewe) but everyone else was underwhelmed. Since that might we have eaten on the walking street and had quite good food. Indianan night two here and last night at a Thai place that we affectionately refer to as ‘Cactus’ (because it’s always full)
and tonight we decide to eat across the street at ‘Georges’ (because it’s not always full 🤨).
Time to support the underdog. Ok, well it’s our last night here, so not an issue, but if we were to try to eat here again, we would have to be a LOT more specific about our food. Rachael had phadThai (check), Anna had a burger (check), Troy ordered garlic and pepper chicken and Tom Yum rice dish (spicy but mostly a check) and I went rogue and ordered something called Fried macaroni in Penang with bread. Why not! Well I’ll tell you why not. I am not known for eating spicy food. I’m a one ⭐️ girl at the best of times. Troy is a two ⭐️ ⭐️ guy, and could possibly do three 🌟 🌟 🌟 if he had to. Well one bite in, I knew it was too-spicy for me. Troy gave it a try, even he acknowledged it was too much but we traded meals and he ate about half the dish then pushed it off. I ate his meal, still pretty dang spicy, but wi5 water and chapstick I got through it. Anyway, not sure how they serve food this spicy to farang! Maybe it is why they are not busy like Cactus?? 😂😂I’ve never not been able to finish a restaurant meal here. There’s been a couple times I’ve thrown out street food as it wasn’t what it appeared to be.
Back to hotel as we have a 5:30 am wake up call coming in the morning….we are back to Krabi airport for our 9am flight to Chiang requires a reverse transport of what we went through to get onto Railay. Initially we were going to move to an airport hotel on Thursday PM and overnight close to airport to be there for the early flight, but at the hotel desk, we saw a since for ‘private transport’ to the airport arranged through them. 1,650 baht ($54usd) and it is end to end. Given the disconnect we experienced getting here, and that there would be no tolerance for gaps, waits or other inconveniences if we stayed on Railay Thursday night and attempted to go Friday morning vs Thursday PM, we decided to just go for it. Then we saw signage that it was 400baht per person for that service from a street travel agent anyway, so same same! So we signed up and crossed our fingers.
Stay tuned for how that goes…..
