Day 57 Ha long Bay

Like the many many other westerners here do, today was our day to see Ha long bay and we chose an overnight package which includes bus transfer to/from hotel to Ha long bay, 2 lunches, a dinner, a breakfast and a night on the Junk boat.
The weather for as long as I've been watching it over 3 months now has been rain and mid 20's for Hanoi. Till today we had the mid 20's and no rain great! Today we still narrowly escaped the rain (we weren't out in it) but it was cold like we are used to about 12-15 deg. The weather didn't really spoil any activity other than swimming but Rachel wasn't going in after the MASSIVE jellyfish we saw kayaking anyway!(see 2pics for size)
We did a bit of kayaking through some caves and around the very scenic karsts. This was near an area of a water village of maybe 100 people living on the water.
In the evening we had a 'sunset party' the sun was coming from the heaters, a bit of a cooking class teaching how to make spring rolls which tasted pretty good too, which was followed by dinner and some unsuccessful squid fishing.
Our room on board was our most luxurious of the trip yet we were up the front had windows both sides and were a bit lucky because ours was a triple room which gave us plenty of space.