kez & hay travels 06

Now nicely settled in Koh Tao, a small island in southern Thailands gulf coast, we booked a 4 day course in scuba-diving.  After a couple of hours in the "classroom" learning about water and air density and nitorgen intake...we progressed into the swimming pool and before we could put any of the diving equipment on we had to proove we could swim by doing 20 (Yes TWENTY) laps of the pool - more than i've done in my lifetime!  Slowly but surely we passed the course 4 days later and saw lots of fantastic sea-life including a gorgeous little yellow box-fish (true to its name).

Now that the hard work was over it was time for some serious relaxing...and for that we popped over to Ko Pha Ngan.  We found a gorgeous secluded beach with only a few other tourists.  We packed a lot in to those days: from eating to sun-bathing to swimming to sun-bathing again.  It was quite tough really, not sure how we coped!!!