Had to move chalets this morning as there is a big wedding on the island so our place is now fully booked. Only had to go next door though so it aint too bad - just hardwork having to pack and then unpack! It's a hard life. Went down to the beach in the afternoon where we just lazed in the shade swinging on hammocks and falling a sleep for a couple of hours. Headed to the sunset bar at night where we again had more beers and chatted to an English couple who a...

Didn't do much during the day today, just went down to the beach and chilled out at the sunset bar where we ended up staying all day and night. On our way back to our chalet at about 11pm we bumped into Jonathon, one of the guys from the theatre group, where we decided to go for one last drink before hitting the sack as we were all still tired from the night before...3am and after meeting a very funny set of malay locals who refused to stop buying us drinks, tak...

Today we started our advanced open water diving course. The first of our 2 dives today was our peak performance buoyancy which basically fine tuned how we float underwater, and move around with out sinking to o fast or going up too fast. The second was the navigation, we were dreading this one a bit as we were so appalling back in Vietnam with the compass, but we managed it really well, we had to swim a perfect square over the coral and a few other exercises as...

Had a well earned lie in this morning to avoid the rain. We spent the day on the beach not daring to venture too far into the water snorkeling as Claire spotted a few jelly fish. Oh well, more sunbathing for Claire and more Shade bathing for Dave. We had a really nice meal and then went to a bar that was showing the Monaco Grand Prix, After about an hour of watching it, we realised the reasons we have never watched many Grand Prix before and agreed that we would...

The supposed advantages of night buses are you get to sleep for all the journey without wasting daytime hours and you dont have to watch the suicidal bus drivers play chicken with your lives, you arrive at your destination early in the morning getting a full day feeling great and best of all you save on a night's acommodation. At 5o'clock this morning we were in Mersing harbour, tired from getting hardly any sleep because of all the swerving and slamming on f...