Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Ko Tao - on the populated side of the island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Tao
For the past 4 or 5 nights (im struggling to remember the day nether mind the date) we have stayed at the Sunset Buri resort. In a nice air con room. We went as cheap as we were willing to go in the 500 baht room over the otherside of the island, this place is 1000baht(13quid) and is much nicer and it has a swimming pool, which is good because the water here is full of jelly fish which im scared of. Simons been teaching me in the pool to dive down and pick the stone up from the bottom. i finally achieved it on my last dive down on the last day, with my goggles on and my nose clip. Diving in from the side next lesson.
Ive had a bad belly most of the time here and kept having to run off most nights back to the hotel. Bit embarrasing after meeting a couple(Roxanne and Peter) that Simon had met at Brekkie in Ko Phi Phi. We went out with them a couple of nights in particular to play pool, watch england beat aussie in rugby and then caberet. Caberet consits of the lady boys badly miming to songs dressed up in wild outfits, very entertaining.
We have been on 2 trips whilst being here:
Fishing trip. Simon caught a fish but whilst winding it in, a baracuda came and bit the fish of so Simon only ended up with the head of a fish. However as that was the only thing we caught he won our round the world fishing comp this time so its 2 each at the mo, might have to wait until we get back to england for the tiebreaker.
Andrea - Fiji, Whitsunday islands
Simon - Cairns, Ko Toa

Sorkeling trip. This was one of the best places we have ever snorkeled. We went to 5 different places over the day. The first stop was Shark Bay. I didnt see it but Simon said he saw a shark that was bigger then him. He said that was scary. One of the bays we went to was like a school for baby fish. It had all the pretty fish everywhere but they were tiny. We saw lots of 'Finding Nemo' fish but the best bit was seeing the baby sharks. We saw a couple of them swimming around and we would try to swim after them to take pics but they are to fast and to scared of people. Another bay called Mango Bay had the most amount of jelly fish ive ever seen. Its strange but i dont mind getting in the water knowing there is baby sharks there but show me some jelly fish and im scared.
The final stopping place was the island of nang-yuan. This is a beautiful island that has the water coming in from both sides and there is a tiny strip of sand you can sunbathe on in between. Of one of the sides you can go snorkeling which had some great fish and coral but for me the most interesting thing was watching the scuba divers in the water learning how to dive properly. They would be in the water, taking their masks of and learning how to put the mask on and clear it of water. I cant even dive to pick a stone up from the bottom of the swimming pool without lessons from Simon, i really dont think scuba diving is for me.

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