A Little of Asia (part 4, the end!)

So far I've shown you pictures of the things we've done, around Phuket, during our dive trip and our speed boat trip to the Phi Phi Islands.

But today is my special ones. There are always parts of any trip that are especially memorable, for various reasons, and these are mine.

Like this one, the day we went to ride the elephants. Jennifer and I had just piled on our elephant, our handler informed us "it" was a lady boy. No I'm not sure what that means.

I call this photo "Elephant head as footrest".

The next one, you've seen one similar, this was taken just before the one in my Part 2 post.

We were trying to get set and had a bit of an elevation thing which is why in the other photo we've locked arms. Also, between the two, Angelo signaled to me to fix my hair. We laughed about that for the rest of the trip, who fixes their hair underwater?

But three days later as we were parting ways for the end of the trip he gave me a hug and said "Oh! Fix your hair!"

Next up, some people say a live-aboard consists of eat, sleep and dive. Well here is proof that for me (and anyone that knows me knows this is true!) it's eat, sleep, dive and read.

This is another before the shot, shot, with the final take being in my Part 1 post. Our group wasn't high maintenance, we just wanted full daiquiris for our photo.

 And to close out that part of the trip. The absolute best photo I took the whole trip, The Junk at sunset.

Now for a couple from the Phi Phi Islands trip.

We wanted to do a group shot, something different, this is what we came up with.

And remember those cute monkeys? Well someone didn't find this one quite so cute.

And finally, something really fun that happened on the way home. My friend Angie is also from Ontario but we've never gotten together in Canada. Last year, well 2010 technically, she was traveling Europe and spent some time here in Belgium with the Brindle and I. Well it just so happens that she was visiting family in Hong Kong and I had a six hour layover in Hong Kong.

She met my fellow traveler, the guy with the monkey on his leg, and I at the airport and gave us a wonderful tour. But to kick it off she took me to see something particular, and we took a picture.

Angie and I at the skating rink in a mall in Hong Kong.

And so we come to the end. I hope you've enjoyed my pictures and the stories of my trip.

When you're comfortable...

Today's photo was sent to me by Rachel Osborn of the BML and gives us a chance to see her Bogie Bear in one of his natural states.

Rachel tells me Bogie stayed in this position, sound asleep, for a half hour or more.

Ah, the life of a Boxer.

A Little of Asia (part 3)

Today is another sharing photos day. These are some of the photos that other members of the dive club shared with me. I have enough of them for two entries so today you get the regular ones and tomorrow you get the ones that make me laugh.

The first one is again from the day we went to see the elephants. My soon to be dive buddy and I riding our elephant, the only scary part was the handler was a little freaky and had a very scary laugh.

This next photo was one that I was happy to see. It's our dive group in the zodiac heading off for a dive. I don't often get my hands on photos like this because I can't take them myself and not everybody finds them interesting. (me? hint! look for pink!)

This was one of the tiniest monkeys we saw out on the Phi Phi Islands. Just a wee little thing.

Sunrise from the Junk. I remember Jen running in to get her camera so she could take this.

Finally, the group that was together for the speed boat trip to the Phi Phi Islands. We were down to seven from the original twenty.

to be continued, one more time...