Welcome to the Album #4 and the South of Thailand!

There are already a few pics from the South in Album 2.  This set presents 16 more awesome sites from a recent holiday back in Krabi again.  Recently a friend said to me that she was completely struck with the beauty and challenge that rock climbing in Krabi presented her.  That is why I seem to holiday only in Krabi.  It is simply incredibly beautiful.  These photos certainly don't do it justice but it is an attempt however humble.

The featured star in many of the photos to follow is a good friend Scott who was here for a couple of weeks before moving on to Pakistan.  He said he was just going to Pakistan to hike a few glaciers but I suspect he secretly went there to negotiate a ceasefire in the Kashmir situation.  He had a telling thirst for the song Kashmir sung by Led Zeppelin.

    Oo let the sun beat down upon my face
    Stars, they fill my dreams.
    I am the traveller of both time and space...
        ...to be where I have been...                        - Led Zeppelin.

Ok...enuf of that.

I hope these pics reflect the potential and the challenge of Krabi as well as the lure.

The scenery
Too smooth for me
Xanadu...
...but these caves are not of ice!
Groovy, baby, YEAH!
Practising a little self-rescue (Thanks for the book, Chris!)
No perspective
Even the belayer was sweating!
Hey hey we're the Monkees
Down a hole
Bottom of the hole
Big tree in a hole
Dr. Livingstone, I presume?
Dat wast step is a woo woo
Descending into heaven
Heaven

That's the end of this Album...try the next one!