Boat trip around the Koh Phi Phi Islands

Today we headed our on our boat for the day, "Blue Skies." It was a 2 story white boat, with the perfect amount of people (some of the other boats were packed way past capacity!). We set out for Maya Beach, which is the shown in the movie "The Beach." It was very beautiful, but also very crowded. We snorkeled through many islands, monkey island, mosquito island, and bamboo island. I haven't really snorkeled that much, just once actually, and it was so amazing. Once I stuck my head under the water all I could hear was my breathing (similar to darth vader), and millions of bright neon fish were swimming right past my face, inches from my nose. We went over coral reefs that were straight out of Finding Nemo, with all the little fish swimming in and out of different holes, the sea slugs closing as we swam over, spiky black urchins, and fish in the sand that blended in perfectly. I even saw "Scar" (from Nemo) multiple times : ) When we were swimming back to the boat from Monkey Island David got stung by a little jellyfish on his hand. It stung and swelled up a little bit, but it went back down with some pink goo the boat captain had. At one island a group of us all swam to the caves under the massive sheer cliffs. We kind of paused outside one of them and David just charged right in to see what was in it. He popped up and said wow there's another cave under this one! We thought he was joking at first but we all went in and looked and deeper under the water was an opening to another cave. We were all hesitant to go into it but before we discussed it David had already swam under and popped up on the other side. It was so beautiful in there, with all the rocks and crystal blue water. All the guys jumped off the top of the boat throughout our journey. David even joined some of the local guys in their kayaks that were being pulled behind our boat. He even stood up in the kayak haha. Our last stop was at a reef where there were supposedly harmless sharks, we didn't see any sharks but it was a beautiful reef to swim through! It was a great day full of sun, great people, clean salty water, and lots of snorkeling!! Tonight we are going out to dinner on the beach with a group of people we met on the boat today, 3 other couples, one from Chicago, London, and Sweden : )
Love you all! xoxo D & K