Beach week so we all headed south from Bangkok on an overnight bus which dropped us off at the side of the road in Chumphon at 3.45am with a hope that a minibus would pick us up and drop us at the port. Thankfully it did drop us at port which was an hour away! We got the ferry to Koh Tao and arrived early morning after some much needed sleep.
Myself and Roberta had booked into an open water dive course for the week with a company called 'Davy Jones Locker' which we were hoping we wouldn't visit during the week! I was a little apprehensive about starting the course as I was a rubbish snorkeler and even more apprehensive after meeting the tattoo and piercing clad, smoking instructor. He actually turned out to be pretty cool and very good as we took to the practical lessons in the pool. With all the info and a really thick manual to learn for a final exam very overwhelming but as soon as we all got into the sea dives scuba all clicked into place and we survived 4 dives at 12m and 18m, one of which was in a strong current.
The diving was amazing and the high lights were definitely the blue spotted stingrays and the uninflated puffa fish. I'm really looking forward to some more diving in the future.
As if we hadn't spent enough time in the water we had a day snorkelling art various sights around the island today. Despite the weather- cloud and pouring rain for most of the day we saw lots of fish and black tip sharks which was pretty cool.
Koh Tao has been a great place to spend the week- the beach was no jungle beach, but the water warm and before everyone came over after full moon parties elsewhere the town was very quiet. Amazing sunsets and fantastic diving but i can't wait to hear what everyone else has been up to in their week free.
Tomorrow we are headed to the mainland to meet the rest of the group in Surat Thani.
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