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This place just keeps gettin better and better.. I think ive finally got my mind back after an absolutley amazin full moon party last night. Im sat sweatin my tats off and well in need of a kip.. Anyway the last week or so ...
Left Ko Pan Gnan last week with Tim and Jess to go Diving on Ko Tao (small 23km island). Spent a couple of days with them before Jess had to go back to Oz via Bangkok. I enrolled on a Open water (beginner diving course), and met a wicked group of people. I think at one point there were about 12 of us from various courses that would all go out and get smashed after diving, and that didnt even include the instructors. Theres a couple of ex army lads from Notts (Dave and Mani), a few irish girls, a mixed group from Notts and a couple of lads from Leeds Uni. Really mixed bunch but there all wicked.
Anyway i passed my open water which means i can now dive anywhere in the world, Course was expensive but its alot cheaper than in Oz so ive done it now and its gone on the credit card. The diving was unreal, missed out on sharks, but swam with Sting Rays ( does that make me more of a man than Steve Irwin?? RIP), angel fish, massive squid, turtles (supposedly cos i didnt see it), some of us even did a night dive.. really surreal, swimming at 15 metres in pitch black, its really like another world down there, all you have is your stuff and a big torch. Saw a Barracuda (2m long) get fresh with a rabbit fish, ate him up in two goes.. f@ckin mint.
Anyway we all left Ko Tao about 5 days ago, to go back to Ko Pan Gnan for the full moon party. We got bungalows together, and here i also met up with Laura and Lucy (ex Arc), and Tim again so the 4 of us have been sharin a bungalow with a wicked view just up in the mountain.
Not much here to tell you cos again i really cant remember but our time here again it pretty much revolved around doin mushroom shakes, dancin like t*** , stayin up to see the sun rise over the sea and not gettin much sleep. I think one night there was 20 of us all shaked up spralled across the floor really not havin a clue what was goin on.
Last night at the full moon party was truely something special, 15 thousand people on the beach, all messy, just dancin and sweatin.. till about 9 o clock this mornin. Wicked party and something else i can tick off as having done.
Pland of action now is to chill here for a couple of days and then take Laura and Lucy over to Ko Tao. I want to do my advanced diving and find some sharks, plus the girls are keen to try it out. Weve said goodbyes to most of the others now, Tim leaves in the mornin back to the Uk, although were meetin Mani and Dave back on Ko Tao. After that im not sure what the plan is. Will be with the girls for the next 3 weeks before i get up to Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos before i meet up with Kila and Kemp on Samui around the 25th October.
Also instead of Syndey first im going to go to melbourne to stay with Jess (Tims ladyfriend), and she's gona help me get set up with job, network, place to stay etc. then ill prob move on to sydney perhaps around february.. depending on how much i enjoy melbourne. After that i havent got a clue.
Anyway stay in touch, cheers for the mails and keep em comin..
Love Samoan Joe x
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