Clowning around

Howdy all,

Quick update, cos I've got a boat to catch.

I did my diving and got my padi open water qualification, then went to koh phangan, where they have a big party every full moon (actually, they have pretty big parties pretty much every day, but the full moon is particularly silly).

Unfortunately a 4 day tropical storm decided to hit the island just as we got there, but luckily dancing about in the rain is the new black, so no one minded. Unfortunately, I don't seem to remember too many details. Something about getting lost for 4 hours in the middle of the night on the way back to my bungalow and meeting all kinds of cool people, none of which were any help in finding my way home rings a vague bell, but for some reason my memory is a bit hazy.

Anyhow, back to more sensible pursuits (hi, mum). I decided the diving was ace, so did some more of it. I went back to koh tao and did my advanced open water, which lets you go much deeper, do a whole bunch of different kinds of dives (phosphorescence on night dives is awesome), and a bunch more navigation.

Including navigating my way across a dive site to where a family of clown fish live.

Yes, I really did find Nemo.


Anyhow, as I say, I've got a boat to catch. We get to the mainland this afternoon, then catch a night train south, that gets us to the Malaysian border tomorrow morning. From there we head to some islands off the east coast for a few days. Probably just lounge about for a bit, but there is supposed to be some great diving there as well, so you never know...

Hope all's well,

Will.
(about to leave Thailand)