Day 32 - Koh Tao

Tea on the balcony today, was beautiful.  A nice cool breeze swept through the apartment as we got ready to go out.

Our first port of call was to Crystal, to book ourselves on tomorrows morning dive and to collecting our mask & fins as we were going snorkelling today, to 'Shark Bay'.

On arrival we popped into the 'New Heaven' bar/restaurant for a drink and bite to eat.  This place has a reputation for having slow service but we didnt seem to have a problem.   I had a tastey cheese omlette with large bottle of water and Si had a veggie breakfast and shake which took no time at all.
The view from this place was lovely, you could see the whole bay  ..must be beautiful at sunset!

Down headed down the monstrous steps to the rocks we kitted up and got in the water.  We snorkelled for a couple of hours at least, saw the big puffa fish, around 5 black tip shark (slightly disappointing) and a few trigger fish which were pretty chilled.  On our way back in, we snorkelled across the old Bio Rock (basically a metal structure which has a small current running through it to promote the growth of coral) it's been there for nearly two years now and it's pretty amazing to see how much growth there is compared to the surrounding area.

Anyway getting out was pretty tricky, I should have remembered to swim around to where we got in originally as I had done previously with Alan & Heidi but we both decided to take our fins off and climb across the rocks.  I didnt have much success, the rock surface was so slippery, I ended up walking between the rocks and still slipped, cutting my leg in the process.  DOH!

After clambering up the steps and riding back to Crystal to drop our snorkelling gear we headed to the bar for a coke & sprite.  Boy, it's was hot.   Even though we'd been in the sea for most of the day we then decided to go to the pool to cool off.

Dinner was at Safety Stop where we both had a spicy burger (veggie burger for Si) then after writing mails and doing some work, we popped into 'Dirty Nelly's' to have a quick beer and then went home to watch Battle Star Galactica.

Jen x