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Travel Blogs from Ko Tao
Testing testing
Hi all. I'm as surprised as you are that i am actually starting this blog, and if anyone bothers to read it I hope it proves at least semi-decipherable. Due to not having worked for the past six weeks (or a lot longer if you count the year and a half my brain was dormant during the time i spent at the pub) I regret to inform that my brain cells may …
Thailand Take Two
... I was being born rapidly, at some stages, to Thailand for a 25 day final blow out with a few old friends. Not a terrible reality to be faced with, despite my weary pessimism and premature nostalgia.
I met Emma and Alice at the Friendly Resort (by name and by nature) in which they’d cannily acquired a little bungalow for probably less than I was paying a night for the veritable pleasure of a 14 man dorm. That night looked promising; it was going to ...
We found NEMO!!
... and had to read a couple of chapters for homework! That night went for dinner with all the Irish lot as they were also doing their diving in Koh Tao. We had the most amazing beef kebab with jacket potato and corn on the cob :) at the Big Blue BBQ and had an early night because we had to be ready for 8.30 the next day!! The next day we met our instructor called Eco Jen! And the rest of our group, Harrie, Bel and Bart! We started off in the pool learning how to set ...
Day 5 - Kho Samui to Kho Tao
We set the alarm for 6am to get up and watch the sunrise on the beach but a tropical storm thought we needed a little longer in bed so we listened to it and set the alarm for an hour later. Once we did get up the weather was gorgeous and the sun was shining, breakfast on the beach again and then a walk down Bo Phut beach. Tickets brought for the ferry crossing to Kho Tao and then just enough time for a splash in the pool and a spot of sunbathing. We ...
Shark Stalking
... the German girls) and the Germans confused as to if they were in danger or not...they were, slightly. The rest of the day was spent exploring the underwater expanse of the Southwest Pinnacles, Mango Bay, Lighthouse bay and the Japanese Gardens. Highlights included a sunken pick up truck, some of the best coral of the trip so far and hundreds of thousands of fish, and also finding a new snorkel on the ocean floor which is a definite upgrade from our Krabi market ...