fishy fishy fishies!

Just finished my Open Water Dive course and.. Im now qualified to dive to 18metres. Whoop! Ive now completed 4 dives at different sites off Ko Tao and seen some pretty amazing tropical fish - Sargeant Majors (very ferocious), Parrot fish, Trigger fish and a Stingray + others. Just had such a great time doing it and made some great friends. Crystal Dive at Ko Tao had some great Instuctors (Andy and Anabelle) who were as sharp with their wit as they were with their fins (er scrub that..)

Initially was slightly nervous, not being exactly a water baby, but had no probs. Jacinta I think it was way easier for me to tread water for 15mins in the sea than in a pool! Oh yes, no problems except for equalising properly (ear pressure). Mum, Janet that must be from your side? JUst meant I had to decend and ascend slower than most but apparently the more you dive the freer these passages become. Im really into diving coming out of that course and there’s a good chance Ill go back there after Cambodia to do my Avanced. Ko Tao just has amazing visibility and some beautiful colours.

By the time I left for Ko Tao there were a pack of about 14 of us, friends from Oz, Ireland, Engl and France (have email contacts galore). Especially hit it off with a Danish couple (Thomas and Louise). I hope to meet up with them again. We hit the Chang beers real hard one night. Chang comes in 750ml bottles and at 6.4% its ure taught me a lesson.

So Ko Tao was very cool, a really laid back island paradise. The food was great at street vendors and restaurant and the night life wasnt bad either. This in sharp contrast is the rampant resort tourism that confronted me as a stepped of the docks at Ko Samui. Ill give it a chance but I think staying at Ko Pha-ngan would have been a better backpacker option. (Vik you said that right?).

BUT tonight is the infamous ‘Full Moon Party’ at Ko Pha-ngan which I’m heading acoss to at about 10pm. Will let you know what mayhem happens shortly. Btw Ive been blown away by the amount of Emails and comments you guys have posted.

Some sweet advice from Susan:
If you do feel funny about some of your travelling experiences, try and separate how you feel into:
a) Is it because this is new and different, something I haven’t experienced before? or
b) Is it because every fibre of my body/instinct/subconscious is telling me to get away?

And John loved your poetry, a nice stream of thoughts:
Falling, falling, drifting eyes closed down though delightful yet lonely
spaces
Lighter and lighter, like a snowflake or an autumn leaf spiraling down and
down
Passing through mountain ranges, which become no more than ethereal
cloudscapes
White out, but no pain, no breaking or crushing, it’s neither the end nor
am I dead yet
Not even bad, just strange, peaceful, tingly impossibilities vying for
existence

(hope you guys dont mind me posting those snips) I hope to have my own abstact compositions to post later on these travels. And FINALLY, there are some photos published in the photolog. (Still have to add the descriptions to them though). Lots of cafes were trying to tell me they didnt have USB.

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