Downtime between the first and second dives was taken up by reading on the boat. I'm proud to say that I have read my first Steinbeck novel. East of Eden was my companion through Burma and the beach.


Katherine, as usual, ripped through a couple Harlequin Romances

At the end of the day, we swung by Phi Phi island to drop off two German guy. When we visited this island in 2002 with Ari, Jennine, Geoffrey and Cob, it was completely overdeveloped, the whole beachfront was guesthouse on top of guesthouse. Then the Tsunami hit. Phi Phi is horseshoe shaped, with about 100 meters between the two shores in the middle part of the island, which is only a few meters above sea level. As such, it was completely wiped out. A big hotel is under construction, but other than that the beach was pretty bare.