Still on Koh Tao Island

Well we are still enjoying the slow pace of island life here on Koh Tao. We've spent plenty of time underwater, which has been great. It has been really nice to get out diving again, that feeling of weightlessness as you glide through the alien under water world, its like visiting another planet, right here on earth. So far we have done six varied dives, all within an hour of the island by boat.

Some of the highlights on the dives have been swimming through short underwater caves, hanging out with the huge range of colorful fish and coral, sometimes on reefs or in a field of life covered boulders, and other times swimming around giant pinnacles of rock (usually granite) that push up from the ocean floor. We also saw a larger shark on a dive this morning to Chumphon Pinnacles, pretty amazing.

Chumphon is full of life, it's pinnacles reach as high as 14 meters below the surface of the water. The location is 11km out from the island in fairly deep water, the site is teaming with schools of fish. We were greeted on our decent by a school of bat fish, each the size of a large dinner plate. They were totally unconcerned about the 5 of us bubble blowers descending, i assumed they were the pinnacles welcoming comity, funnily enough they were waiting for us at the end of the dive too. The big highlight of the dive was our shark encounter, we figured him to be about 3 meters long, he was a beauty. We were at a comfortable distance and he didn't seem to interested in us, which might be a good thing. We have actually been told that the sharks are quite scared of the bubbles we blow out, its crazy that these sleek underwater hunters are scared of a few bubbles! the rest of the dive we saw the greatest concentration of see anemones, along with their resident matching coloured fish, that we have seen yet. The nicest looking residents are the clown fish, each with its own anemones. We saw a cute family of clown fish today, mom, dad and a little one, all hanging out in their anemone. Just to mention, if you are not sure of what the clown fish look like, just think of the movie ' Finding Nemo.'

Anyway, so the diving is really nice, i will hold off on giving a description of each dive however, in order to preserve your sanity and consciousness. We have been out and done a few great snorkel trips, that has also been really nice. We decided to pick up some basic snorkel gear as it will be useful now for the remainder of our trip. So what else have we been doing? Relaxing, a lot. Reading books, enjoying a bit of meditation and of course eating. The food is still excellent and our bodies seem to be cruising along without any food caused illness, which is fantastic. And thats about all for now. Unfortunately we will be uprooting from here soon, but only to another warm tropical island, so i am sure we will be just fine.

Also we have added a few new pictures into our Thailand gallery, located in the link top right of this page.

Lots of love to all our family and friends...