5.45am alarm clock again….you think I would be getting use to it but nope!
This time though it was to go diving again to check out the marine life around Koh Tao. We left the dive shop around 6.30am to head for the boat and get out before all the other dive schools were able too. First issue arrived…..we were boat diving and not shore diving so this was unusual to us as we haven’t done it before. Our nerves were calmed when all you had to do was step off the boat or fall in backwards 😂
Once we started to gear up and put the swimsuit on we realised our next problem. They had packed a small swimsuit for me and a extra small BCD. We think they copied Becky’s line twice when packing the equipment up that morning. I attempted to get in the small but it was pointless couldn’t get it past my legs 😂 lucky one of the instructors had a spare….size large 😁
Once in the water it was pretty easy, follow the rope to the depth we were going and follow the dive master. Becky was my buddy and an American we met partnered the dive master (turns out he works for Instagram in New York) he laughed when we told him we don’t use social media anymore. Anyway he was useless in the water couldn’t follow simple instructions. We thought the marine life would be awesome here with what we have been told. Unfortunately not as it was full moon so the current was quite strong and the visibility very poor, maybe 6m or so compared to Philippines which was 15m. On our first dive we saw tropical fish, sting ray and lots of barracuda. Our next dive would take us to shark island. My eyes lit up!!!! Get in finally were going to see some action! Turns out theres no sharks in Koh Tao 😒 there is however a whale shark but hasn’t been seen in weeks, I didn’t keep my hopes up. The second dive was much better visibility and more marine life on offer. Becky and I partnered up again but problems started happening to me as my mask kept fogging up. I could barely see Infront of me it was that bad. The instructor was trying to show us different fish but I couldn’t see anything by that point. I was even removing my mask constantly to try and get rid of the fog. I resulted in leaving water in the bottom of the mask and leaning my head forward to clear the fog everytime it happened.
We decided to sign up for the advanced course after the full moon party as you can go deeper which means it will be a better experience plus if we ever want to go diving in future it’s worth having the extra depth.
Once diving was over we now had to organise our trip to Koh Phangan for the full moon party. Our first and best option was to leave here around 5.30pm and come back at 2am. This would have been perfect we thought. Our luck struck once again as we arrived to book this trip it was no longer running! Typical. Our only option then was to get the 5.30pm depart and the 8.30am return the next day. Which meant we had to stay up all night on the beach as the pick up from the party was 5am.
Our plans for the evening were pretty chilled. We decided to eat at one of the recommended restaurants from our travel book. Bang burgers it was called. A small walk amongst some hotels and shops we arrived at a little converted house. Becky was suspicious and the only veggie option was sweet potato Pattie. To her surprise it was very VERY good. We both had fries with extra BBQ sauce…..I was drooling when I seen BBQ sauce on the menu. It wasn’t like back home but it sure hit the spot.
Slow walk back to the hotel to chill out and get ready for the big one tomorrow! FULL MOON PARTY!!!!!
South East Asia 2019 