Koh Tao Thipwimarn Resort Ko Tao

... and 2 from our book, which just expanded on the video. This took under an hour, and after this we sat outside on the beach and watched the sunset, which was absolutely beautiful (more on the sunsets in the next entry).

A bit later on we went on a wander, found a cheap Thai restaurant for dinner, then went to a bar for some drinks. After this we ended up going to a ladyboy show down the road at 10pm; Natalie had seen some of them in the street earlier ...

... found out she's going to be working in Abergavenny after her holiday, small world. There were 6 of us sat there for a bit and we thought that might be it but sadly we were mistaken, about another 30 turned up and filled the boat.
We got going into a fairly choppy sea so the boat was rocking and rolling over the place and we got a nice shower from all the spray. Thankfully we headed to the other side of the island which was much calmer but we ...

... is very easy, don’t worry’….. and they were right. It was pretty easy to pass. ;0))

Diving was amazing experience and we would definitely like to keep up this hobby. So now we are both holders of PADI certificates up to 18metres and hoping to do the advanced course soon once earned some cash.

In Koh Tao we stayed on Sairee beach as this was were our diving ...

... more chicken pad thai for the road because Jakob will definitely question my sanity and decide against keeping in touch.

Off to the island of Ko Toa on the eastern side of Thailand on a night boat, how exciting, my own little bed, snoozing away, waking up refreshed maybe grab a bite to eat in the galley. Wrong. Night boat could easily be mistaken for refugee boat, there are no cabins, just one cabin, well ...

... like poo. However, some here excelled themselves by actually moving, showing their moving bits and looking marginally more interesting. For the first time, Jen successfully spotted nudibranches without someone else pointing at them! These 'sea slugs' come in a huge range of colours and patterns although most we saw were the same variety.

Other less welcome visitors to the coral were the crown of thorns starfish. These are voracious eaters of ...

... sea was so rough but once on board I was buzzing as we are now both qualified advanced divers able to dive up to 30m anywhere in the world, get up bey! We did our paper work when we got back, then took Agnes for a well earned drink.

So it's now the day after and we've just bought our boat & bus tickets to Krabi for the morning, so we're switching coasts from east to west, it could be a turf war Biggie and Tupac style but I doubt it!

Until next time, we out, peace.

... and we couldn't get into the club because IM is only 19 and you have to be 20 to get in. She was horribly embarrassed but i couldn't stop laughing because it was so damn funny. her birthday is in July so when i come back from Alaska we will be able to have a few drinks and relax to our hearts content. pretty funny stuff eh? As most of you know, there has been a lot of crazy **** going on in Thailand as of recently with the culmination of bangkok being reduced to ...

... the bed). Pete was like lightning and smashed the broom onto it. No movement for a while. He slowly lifted it off and this little ******* just ran for us.
We jumped out of the way and let him do his thing - gave him a humane chance I thought. But nooooo, he runs under my bloody bag, which is open. I lifted the bag while Pete picked up our saviour - the Lonely Planet - a hefty bible of a book. This thing (which looks like a over-sized millipede with hair all over it) makes a ...

It has been a while since I have updated my travel blog I know for all you keen readers, and that is for the following three reasons: 1) The internet on the Thai islands is terrible. 2) In Koh Phangan the internet was very expensive. 3) The days blurred together in and around the Full Moon Party. I think the last entry ended with us leaving Krabi to go to Koh Phangan for the party so I will start on the night ferry which took us there. I also don ...

... for example) dont even have walls, blinds and tarps are just pulled down when it rains, and someone is there 24/7. the beach is very nice as well. long thin stretch of beach. even when the tide is low, the farthest you have to walk on the beach to touch the water is about 15m, and it is very shallow for quite a while. we had dinner that evening at sairee cottage, and met everyone involved with sairee cottage. Trevor the irish part owner of the restaurant, dive shop and resort. His ...