Day 9 - Koh Tao

Si woke early to complete some work and I arose around 10  ..so had a lovely lie in :-)

Today we helped out with a Reef Check course.  There's only one chap, Matt who's doing the course but Simon and I volunteered to assist as we wanted to see our artificial reef 'Junk Yard' and have a couple of easy dives.

Reef Check is where we lay down a transect linen (50m / 100m and monitor what's 5m either side of it)  Its a brilliant course, its more than just looking a pretty fish, it shows you the damage that is being caused by the surrounding environment, namely us (humans).  The course is a 4 day course but it's all classroom tomorrow and we'll be going out again on Saturday.

After our dives we sat in the Crystal restaurant and chatted, reveiwing what we'd seen and the effects of climate change then proceeded to 'Safety Stop' for a beer and to log on & check mails.

JD x

So far it;s been a nice relaxing day.  Tonight I think we'll be catching up with some friends to play 'Settlers of Catan'  and having a few more beers.