Ko Ko Kradan

Merry Ho Ho Ho everyone

This is going to be a post from the last few days so I suggest you grab a cup of tea and some choc and enjoy the read......it's going to be a long one.

Some days ago, I have no idea when we left Ko Lanta.  We managed to bargin everyone down in Ko Lanta for hotels, diving trips, food and finally the transfer to Ko Kradan.  At first we werentold it would be 500bht each [10 pounds] but we managed to haggle to 350 inclusing a free trasfer from the hotel to the ferry terminal.  So of course what that really means is..... we have a story.

We got up with time to spare and headed for breakfast, Ben ordered a burger, Olga a club sandwich and me pancakes.  After x period of time there was no food so we asked for a take out instead as out transfer left in 5 minutes.  Once we arrived with breakfast at the pick up truck it was full.  The back of the van was full of 6 people, so we were invited into the inside of the airconditioned car.  Sadly there was no room for our bags so they got thrown on the lap of the people squashed in the back of the van.  We had plenty of room in our part.  Instead of getting to the ferry termina; we get dropped at a dodgy looking cafe, he takes our tickets and drives away.  We went through to the back of the cafe and there is a dodgy looking boay, well normal really just not posh.  We had just stayed in a 3000 bht a night hotel so we were used to posh.  Anyway who cares we are bartaring travellers so we were happy.

So then the adventure starts we start breakfast, my pancakes appear to be chips.....Ben's chips as we have left the bloody oancakes behind.  Then we are asked to board the boat...oh no not the dodgy boat, anyone can get on that.  Our boat is what can only be described as a sheet of tin with a engine.  I panic that we are sitting outside for hours on an open top boat.  Well have you seen the colour of me, I will fry.  I search the entire boat to find an indoor area which is next to the engine room.  This boat gave me a new appreciation for Australian asylum seakers.  If these dudes need to spend over a month on one of these they should be granted asylum.  Anywho......we arrive finally in Ko Kradan even after a random stop over to snorkel.

We find Olga friends so we are now 9 and xmas can begin.  We are made up of an Italian, 3 x Austrians, Greek, German, 2 Scousers and me.  Most of xmas involed jokes, chang, samson rum and many many laughs.  So many that I will tell you in person and not on the internet.  We are half camping/ bungalows and the beaches are amazing at night.

During the day it is a dy trippers paradise so we are filled with tour boats and dreadful tourists but by 3pm they leave and the island is ours.  The tourist have been renamed happy hour because we eat free from their buffet and the afternoon we wave them goodbye like Robinson Crusoe.

The island through very strange, there is a tie I have never seen before.  One moment you leave for dinner and the tide is out.  You arrive in a resturaunt and drink some chang, when you leave the tide is in and you are trapped by a sea of water.  You either swim, go through the jungle or stay for more chang changs.  I can assure you we have tried and succeded in all three.  This magical tide revolves around us so we must be the moon.  It is the only logicl conclusion I can make.

To conclude, our trip to Ko Kradan will end tomorrow and the group will split for a few days and come back together for a NYE to remember.  I have had a great xmas but if I am honest it is not the same.  L.I.V.I.N.G.T.H.E.D.R.E.A.M is being with my 3 husbands at xmas and I have missed them a lot.  I will make the most of it and am having a blast but I miss you xxxxxx

See you in a few days for updates.