Koh Tao Tropicana Resort Ko Tao

... and were immediately swarmed with people asking if we needed a hotel or a taxi. We didn’t have anything booked and our plan was to walk around and find one. Stacy had recommended Bahn’s, but when we had looked at it online it was outrageously priced, so imagine our surprise when the first guy who came up to us was from Bahn’s and offering a room at exactly the price we were looking for. We agreed and jumped into a waiting truck, waving Lee and ...

... there are countless varieties of colourful tropical fish swimming around! so after getting the full kit on it was just one giant step off the side of the boat and away we went! we swam to shore on the surface but faces in the water, getting used to using the regulator, then once in location we droppd to oour knees on the sand for some drills. over the entire course we did numerous skills including flooding and emptying our masks, removing the masks ...

... caused her to turn completely white and nearly faint. She sat outside and when my foot was bandaged I hopped to the 7-11 next door to buy her some Malteasers to make her feel better. The nurse inside must have been a little bemused.<br><br>The disappointing news was that our record would now have to wait for 7 days until my stitches came out. Also no running in the sea or splashing around in the pool. Life is unfair!!<br> <br>Thursday 1st October<br ...

... bar who promptly came over to sit beside me. This chap really fancied himself as a modern day Cassanova with the immortal lines "you so beautiful. Come with me, I take you to the moon, there is no one else there." Well, as far as I can tell the moon is pretty rocky and cold and we might have had a bit of trouble breathing up there, so thanks mate, but I&#8217;ll stick with Paradise.<br><br>As Koh Tao is famous for its diving, I decided it was time to ...

... the &#8216;boys&#8217; indicated to our shoes and gestured that we would need to take them off. (it is usual practice in Thailand to remove your shoes when you go into a building, but not when you are walking along a beach). It was then apparent that the sand bar to the island where our bungalow was located was actually not a sand bar but under water. Because the tide was in, we had to wade through 50-60 cms of water to get to our island. The boys struggled with our heavy bags ...

... Our last stop was a small island just off Ko Tao called Ko Nangyuan. As we were finishing up our snorkeling, we saw dark clouds on the horizon. The wind picked up, and it was time for us to head back to the pier to wait for our boat anyway, around 3pm, so we all went there. In an overly cautious moment this morning, I had put my plastic poncho in my bag "just in case," and it turned out to be... the best 20 baht I've ever spent. It started to ...

... cheap prices, restaurants that have wooden signs outside proclaiming the movies they will play on their VCR systems tonight. But most of all I see dive shops, more dive shops and even more dive shops with fancy names like The Big Blue, Calypso Diving, Grand Coral Diving and the like. It is not diving I am after today though....I wanna go out and enjoy the tranquility of the azure blue mighty ocean, be on my own ...