Having had such an amazing few days doing the Open Water course and getting on so well with our group and teacher (and also getting discount), we decided to do our Advanced divers course. So this meant meeting at 10am this morning for a briefing and deciding on what type of dives we wanted to choose for this level. We chose deep dive, wreck dive, night dive, fish identification and navigation. After this briefing we were told to meet back at half 12 which gave ...

As a celebration for passing our Open Water PADI course, the group went out for dinner again together and then all came back to the Fishbowl bar to watch the DVD of us scuba diving which was amazing!

We were up at 6.30am to meet for an early morning dive and did our first dive at Twin Peaks again. This time we played around on the purposely sunk objects, learnt how to do back flips and had a video taken of us while swimming around. We then got back on the boat and went to our next dive spot White Rock where we did a 16m dive and saw puffer fish, a blue spotted sting ray and a trigger fish which are very defensive and attacked our guide Rich who had to fight...

Today we had another theory lesson in the morning followed by our exam then in the afternoon went for our first dive! Our first dive was a 12metre dive to Twin Peaks. We all went down fine and all the girls over took the other group of panicking guys! At the bottom of the ocean we were made to take our mouthpiece out and put it back in again as one of the skills which sounds really scary but was surprisingly really easy and I didn't panick or scream once! I thi...

For dinner we ate at Darawan, a restaurant that's within and owned by Bans resort and ordered a Thai sharing platter it was so so yummy that I'm going to tell you what was on it: Peanut curry paste cooked in coconut milk and potato and chicken Spicy Thai curry with king prawns and asparagus Coconut milk soup with lemon grass, galanga and chicken Deep fried chicken with lemon grass Fried chicken with honey and lime Jasmine rice & deep fried bananas with...