We completed our advance open water which allows us to go to 30m deep! We did navigation with compasses underwater, buoyancy skills, 30m deep dive, a ship wreck dive which was awesome (wasn't a real sunken ship but one that had been sunk on purpose to be a dive site) and lastly - a night dive!! The night dive was awesome... We sort of saw a sleeping turtle...Wel didn't know what it was til we surfaced! A blue spotted sting ray, some huge hermit crabs and lots of nocturnal and sleeping fishies.
It felt as if we were floating in space. Blackness all around and sometimes the light of the boats shining down like in an alien abduction! Super cool. Its hard to keep ones bearings in the dark.
The day after our advanced ended we decided to say goodbye to koh tao and our awesome instructor Skui and friend Ben. It is such an awesome little island but we have so many more adventures to go on! We were thinking maybe of coming back to do our dive masters!
Took a fast ferry boat this time on the way to ko phangan, it took only 1:30mins! (Compared to the songserm slowboat that always takes double the time of the fast boat.)
We met up with Kaila at cookies bungalows, just north of thong sala where the ferry comes in, where we found some sweet new digs with beachfront! 550 baht($18)split between 2 people isn't so bad... Probably the nicest spot we've stayed in Asia yet! We rented motor bikes @ 150 baht a pop and off we go!! Drove across the island to the east coast to swim in the deep, crazy cerulean waves. The west coast ,where we are staying, is much shallower and better for snorkeling.
Kaila has been going to monte vista yoga centre for a workshop and daily yoga and meditation and Mairi is committed to go too for the 5 days we are staying on ko phangan. Except for today of course
because today Mairi and Keith are going for 2 dives at sail rock!!
Super stoked - this is a small rock/island, off the northern tip of ko phangan between koh tao, where tons of fish and other creatures gather. There are massive schools of mackerel and barracuda so thick all one can see is fins and flicks of colours and silver.They say there's a higher chance of seeing a whaleshark at sail rock! We chose sail rock divers to go dive with and our dive leaders name is "blue".
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