Boat ride from Pattaya's new pier to Kho Larn

This is my Khon larn boat ride. It was really a nice experience and one that I would do again. I think the trip cost 150 baht and it was all arranged on the new pier. We just went to the new pier and there was a young man and young lady selling tickets for the boat ride over. We all bought our tickets and they placed an orange piece of tape on our shirts and off we went. Once on the island I just relaxed, laid around, napped, ate and took pictures, which I'll post later the lazy blogger that I am. This is my first attempt at posting a video on the blog, so here it goes. Oh, this video was taken with my new Canon SD900. As far as picture quality goes I really like the camera but, the videos in standard mode are substandard, this was taken is the High quality mode which does a much better job. But of course most of the videos I took were in standard mode.

I am now uploading a second video that is in standard mode so you can see the difference. The video is of us docking back at the new pier. Sorry about the camera moving around so much but the boat didn't stand still and my back packs top button popped off, that's when I turned around and you see the thai guy kneeling down, I'm picking up the button.

I thought it was funny when a young Japanese man knelt down to kiss the ground after getting to solid ground or I should say pier. It was a rough long ride, we stopped half way back to pick up passengers from another boat. That was something else, our boat was violently moving up and down, back and forth ; their boat was doing the same and at the same time the passengers were trying to go from one boat to the other. I really thought some one was going to get hurt or fall off the boat, but they made it after several attempts. That would have been a great movie to catch but I was so engrossed in what was happening I didn't even think of getting it on camera.