10th April 2014

It was an early start for Simon, Chris and I as we were all off diving.  Meeting at Crystal at 6.45 was a little bit of a struggle but after a coffee, we were set to go.  Steve, one of the video chaps was free, so he said he'd be delighted to film us and would show it at Crystal tonight at 7.30pm ..how lovely!!.   ...video to come!!!!

Our fist dive was at Twin peaks, just a casual dive around the deeper part of the pinnacle where we bumped into a huge school of barracuda.

Our second dive was on the Wreck, the HTMS Sattukut

Launched in 1944, this battleship was commissioned by the U.S. Navy and used in the occupation of the Japanese islands during WW2.

Almost 50m in length lies between 22m-30m

As for Fiona, Chloe and Iona, they were off to a Thai Cookery class which didn't start until 10am.  As we came up from our dives, we were wondering what they were doing and how far they'd got with their dishes as after our dives we were going straight up to the cookery class to sample their delights :-D


Dives over and back on land, We washed and packed away our kit and headed to Zest to buy 3 large cappucino's and 2 mars bar shakes for the girls and headed to the Thai cookery class.  Si didn't come as he was working doing another eco dive that afternoon.

On arrival, the girls were munching through some No Name vegetable & Papaya salad that they made.  They'd kindly saved some for Chris and I and there was even some No Name vegetable for Simon which we later took back to Crystal for him.

As we made ourselves comfortable, the girls finished off their Pad Thai Prawn and Red Thai Chicken
and presented everything before us, everything smelt and tasted delicious  ..by the time we'd tried a little of everything, we were rather full :-D    

After a short walk back to Crystal we jumped in a taxi and headed back to Haad Tien for a lazy afternoon by the pool and a bit of snorkeling/kayaking to see the black tip shark that swam around the bay. Unfortunately we still didn't see Terry the Turtle.

Sun kissed and showered, we caught the 6.45pm shuttle bus into Mae Haad and walked slowly down to Crystal bar.  We were all petty excited to see Chris's movie.  Steve had done a brilliant job and we will be downloading it soon, for all to see.

After a couple of G&T's we headed down to Whitening to eat and then it was home to bed