Diving in Koh Tao

Evening all,

Caught a flight from Bangkok last Tuesday down to Koh Samui, very strange airport much more like a boutique hotel than somewhere that has a dozen flights land a day. A couple of hours on a boat and I docked in Koh Tao. Dive resort is pretty good, no beach bungalows which sucks but room is good enough and there is a nice beach bar which is a decent enough place to watch the sunset. Unfortunately I apparently bought the shit weather with me, day I landed everything clouded over and the sun has hardly been out since. Not much rain but the wind is playing havoc with the sea, coming back from the afternoon dives has been made more interesting by trying to avoid the heavy wooden table that has a habit of sliding around the deck trying its best to break someones leg!

Haven’t dived the last two days. Didn’t get to bed until 4am this morning so the idea of getting on a boat this afternoon with the swell as it is did not appeal to my already queasy stomach. Have a 7am start in the morning so having quiet night reading on the beach, not a bad alternative. The diving so far has been so-so. One site had some great swim throughs and caves to explore, the shafts of light coming down through the gaps in the rock were cool. Tomorrow should be better, going to the other side of the island out and into the sea a bit, more life out there apparently – some black tip sharks and other larger reef life.

Sorted out my last couple of dives to get my advanced certification and rewarded myself with a new scuba mask, was going to get some fins as well but they were pretty pricey for anything more than your standard rental models so will hold off on that for now. Also have a night dive course booked, something I meant to do in Malaysia but never got round to.

Not really a lot to say as you can tell from the rather labored and boring message above but once the weather clears I shall stick up another post with some pictures and what not.