We are up early and check out of our tent and in to a twin room. To be honest it wasn't as good as the tent, but what can you do. I'm renting a kayak today to go and see the emerald cave, I have said to Sara Jane and David and they are going to come along. We head down to the beach and get sorted with 2 kayaks. They only have 2 man ones and as neither of these two have ever been in a kayak I take mine on my own. We have to trail the kayaks down to the sea, about ...

I have time to grab a quick breakfast before my bus arrives. Unusually it arrives fairly promptly and it is the minivan. Not to many people on it but I can here some Irish, Sara-Jane, and a Polish, Thomas. We chat all the way to the pier, not that it was really a pier in any sense that you could think of. I mean the road just ends at the side of a river. There is a boat that is getting loaded up with all manner of things to be transported to the island. We have t...

My sleep was not all that it could have been. My room has what seems like cardboard walls, and a fan. It gets so hot that the part of my body on the bed starts to sweat, so I have to keep turning around to allow the fan to dry me. Not ideal, but so cheap that I will just have to deal with it. So back to the place that I had coffee last night for some breakfast. It has good wifi and I am somewhat behind on my blog and so this will give me a chance to catch up, upl...

Boat arrives at 4.30 in Surat Thani and we all pile off. Vicky heads to her minivan and I make my way over to the waiting area for my company. About 100 white people here, just being shipped off to various areas of the country. After a little wait I am bundled in to a tuk tuk and brought to the travel agents in the town. They have a large waiting area and it is not long before someone comes up and asks me where I am going and then writes me a ticket for the bus. ...

An early rise for the last day of diving, after this I am going to be a fully qualified diver, nice. Meet at 7.15 and we are on the boat where we go out to do our last couple of dives, this time a girl from the dive school has come with us and she is going to take video of us underwater and put together a DVD for us. Of course this is not free and I shudder to think of the cost when she has it completed. The dives today were brilliant because it is at this point...