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Hi chaps
my first week off started on 24th June and I went to Koh Tao - an island just on the right hand side of Suratthani. I got the night boat there which takes about 8 hours. Nearly didn't make it as one of my housemates kindly locked me in the house and scarpered so I had to ring around the neighbours for someone to come and let me out!
Koh Tao is one of the cheapest places to learn to dive so I thought what better way to get over my fear of water! I was recommended a place called Scuba Junction. First of all the accommodation was awful and the first day of my course was postponed so I would have a buddy so I had to kill 2 days which just happened to be the 2 days of the week that the weather was rubbish!
Anyway - the scariest part of the open water course was having to take my mask off. We had to do it about 4 times - I asked the instructor how often you need to take your mask off and he told me that in his 5,000 he has never had to take his mask off. I then went onto do the advanced dive course, this is just 5 adventure dives with no daft skills just fun diving. Needless to say the first 'fun' dive I did, I had a dodge mask and had to change masks!!!! On my second 'fun' dive I swam into a titan trigger fish's territory without noticing and got bumped on the hand. As generally nothing goes smoothly with me, I obviously had an allergic reaction resulting in painful swelling until I took myself to the hospital when the night boat got back to Surat at 5am. They gave me anti hystamine and said I would feel drowsy. I told them I had to drive my bike home and it was a 10 minute drive. They said that would be ok and to just lie down and wait for the nurse to bring me the bill. Well ..... an hour later I wake up hoping their not gonna charge me for kipping time on a hospital bed!!!!!
Got some lovely photos but still can't load them properly onto this yet but working on it. There is a big party tonight on a boat called 'Boat Love'. This has been much hyped up. £8 for all you can eat and drink - I am of course working at 10am tomorrow so prob won't get my money's worth and was up until 5am last night watching Desperate housewives (cheers Jen x) so I'll let you know how that works out.
Hope all is well with everyone xxx
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