First days in Thailand

I have had some technical difficulties with the phone and posting on the blog. It more so boils down to user error but I have deleted this blog post 4 times now before I was able to post it. I am sorry to leave all the readers hanging, but I am now going to try and catch up on our trip by writing shorter posts. 

This is a picture of our place from the sand flats at low tide. Thaddeus, Ben and I went out here on our first day and chased crabs and found these snails that left these cool tracks.  

We woke up the first morning at 5 am to Muslim prayers over loudspeaker from a nearby mosque. It turned out to be one of the highlights of our mornings. We would listen to the prayers, mixed in with the sounds of jungle critters, and go back to sleep. I was able to record them one morning- check out this link:

http://soundcloud.com/akaiser98/morning-prayers/s-DGbGE

We all walked to a nearby beach. 

It was very secluded. We had to walk through plantation land, around a closed gate and then down a 100 ft cliff, but it was nice. We watched the sunset and enjoyed the view from a stone arched lookout point. 

We had a way to go to get home so we decided to hitchhike and were lucky to get picked up by some Germans staying in our place. We all rode together in the bed of their truck. 

More to follow tomorrow. For now, they are turning the generator off at our bungalows so I must post before the power goes out.