Ton sai beach-sothai

Katie, Suzanne, and I ventured south on new years day taking a plane, bus, and boat to our destination of Ton sai. It's a small town with many climbers, full of bungalows and lots of trash.  On a peninsula, ton sai beach is isolated requiring us to take a 20 minute boat ride to get there.   Lucky for me, I changed into my sandals in the boat because we had to jump off our boat into ankle deep water and walk to shore. 

The initial feel here was quite sad with the sewage ditches exposed and trash strewn throughout town. 

It's amazing that after 3 nights here, I grew quite fond of the place. 

We enjoyed time at the beautiful beach, railay west, just a 15 minute hike away. 

We found a fantastic yoga class. 

We hired a boat to take us to some islands and try our hands at claiming rocks and jumping into the water (aka- deep water soloing).  Suzanne and I climbed on a guided trip doing some fun climbs and Katie found some friends who gave her a belay. It's quite cool to watch people scaling stalagtites as the climb. 

Julia arrived after spending the holidays with her family and missing new years eve somewhere in air space.  Happy to greet her, we all met for a drink and shared stories of our adventures. 

Suzanne and Katie left today for Ko samui to enjoy a friend's brother's wedding.