Beautiful Railay

Between rain storm and rain storm, we took to the stunning karst-dominated landscape of Railai beach, both the East and West sides. It was just as I'd remembered it. 

Preface: this entry has a gratuitous number of stunning beach photos. That's mostly it.  Except for...phallus cave, a place for sailors to make their offerings to the sea gods before departure: 

And beautiful iced coffee:

Next to beautiful papaya salad:

Here's the stunning picture upon stunning picture. Moody, atmospheric weather, wind and all:

Climbing the rocky outcropping in flip flops to pass all the rock climbers and make it to Ton Sai Beach:

Ao Phra Nang Beach and a predominantly sunny day interrupted by a brief, intense rain:

Beautiful rain reflections: 

The wind:

Let's finish on a non-gratuitous beach shot. Yep, we're tan and smiley and a million miles away from the madness of work.