On heading to Thailand, I was quite sure that island hopping would not be a large part of my agenda. I was certain that I wanted to stay in the highly-populated city streets and explore all that Bangkok had to offer for the majority of our 10 day stay. Well, after about 2 days of sweat and near heat exhaustion – a little island sounded like just what the Dr. might order. Tony had done a bit of research, and following the suggestion of some friends we decided to seek out some of what Phuket had to offer. I will say that what we found was a large tourist base and a major lack of authenticity in all things we experience there. Not even the hotel attendants spoke Thai! So after about 2 hours and a handful of headaches, we made plans to leave the island immediately the following morning. [Sidenote, we were at the tip of the island - Rawai Beach - clearly there must have been a better place]

We planned to jet out on a 7am flight, but upon arrival at the airport we found that the next available flight was not until 7pm. So at the suggestion of the airline attendant we checked in our bags and headed for a beach about 5 minutes from the airport. What we found there was a little slice of everything that we were looking for. Every gray cloud truely does have it’s silver lining, and we found ours….I think the pictures speak for themselves…