Monkeys!

Today was great...although as i sit here I feel like I'm on a rocking boat, and I got off the boat about 4 hours ago. We decided to go on a snorkeling trip around the island. We left at about 9 am and took a longboat to about 5 spots around the island. I realized that i haven't explained these longboats. They are small long wooden boats that look like they came straight out of the Mayflower times. The only difference is that there is a motor on the back with a long propeller that sticks in the water...you would never see these in the states. They are pretty fun but can be scary..especially night (there is no light on it).

So we went to all these different spots and saw some amazing fish all over. The water here is sooo clear and turquoise blue, it's like out of a fairy tale. All of the limestone cliffs make it even more dramatic. Then we went to this beach on the other side of the island we are staying at called monkey beach...cause there were TONS of monkeys just hangin out, literally posing for people's cameras. I wished i had brought mine but there will be more monkeys. It was really amazing though, i've never seen so many monkeys in their natural habitat. It was also kind of sad cause there was all this trash on the beach where noone lives...obviously from the tsunami. In fact, we saw trash on some other little random sand coves that obviously got there the same way...its kind of mindblowing.

Then we went to the spot where they filmed the movie "The Beach" with good old Leo, it was pretty excellent. It felt magical, like a unicorn was going to jump out of somewhere. So now we're in town, and i really love checking my email and posting to my blog cause I'm a big dork. But i think if i sit here any longer i'm gonna puke from seasickness...so gotta run!