Tuesday 23 February 2010

Day 21 - Koh Tao

We're so tired!!

We must have stumbled home around 1.30am and had to be up at 6am in order to be down at Crystal in time to catch the boat as we volunteered to lead fun divers.   We obviously hadn't planned on staying out late, it just ended out that way.  Originally we thought that Scott should experience Sairee by night properly, so started at Choppers' an Aussie bar, loud music, band, sports being played on plasma's everywhere  ..most popular place for newly qualified Open Water Students where things can get very messy.



Then our next port of call was 'Lotus' beach bar. This is one of those bars where it just comes alive at night  ..its got a palm tree leaning right over the sea, people doing fire poi, good upbeat tunes and sell lethal buckets of Samsumg & coke, Vodka & Redbull.    So after bumping into Tina & Carsten who we didnt think were coming out ...the earlish night went out the window.


Anyway, in the morning,  after stopping to get a fried egg sandwich to takeaway, we made it to Crystal in good time &
sat quietly on the boat feeling sorry for ourselves from the lack of sleep & heavy heads :-D
Luckily both of our groups that we took fun diving were very good, so a nice & easy couple of dives at 'South West Pinnacle' and 'Shark Island'

Back on dry land we washed our kit, stamped the fun divers log books with our new funky stamps with our PADI intructor numbers on, then headed to 'Safety Stop' for lunch with Tina & Scott before jumping in  the pool.

Tonight, Scotts coming over and we'll play a few games of pool :-D

4 comments:

Roy said...

Stay hydrated! I don't want you getting DCS! Sairee sounds like fun to me!!! If I do manage to come over - maybe you could stamp my book for me!!!!

Yvonne said...

I agree with Roy, stay hydrated.
You want too enjoy yourselves but need to take care.
Enjoy the hot weather as all it has done here is rain, we are all ending up with web feet, unlike you, Roy won't need any flippers if he comes too see you. ( ha ha) xx

Unknown said...

They don't call them flippers "in the industry)... Call them that here and it'll cost you a beer fine... The official name is Fins!!!

I'll stamp ya book for you bro... as many times as you want... With my big wet foot! :-)

Roy said...

Ewwwww, no thanks - I hate cheesy feet.