Diving Paradise

Next stop... Krabi. That's where I am now after a very busy and fun week on Koh Tao. We basically loved Koh Tao so much that we ended up staying there 8 nights when we were only planning about 4 or 5!

The diving there was brilliant AND i saw a shark, a black tip reef shark which was about 2 metres long. Apart from that, there were more pretty fish like Angelfish and Butterflyfish as well as a big green turtle and lots of cute other marine life. I did 11 dives there including a night dive and it only cost 100 pounds. For all those who don't know how much diving usually is, in Australia, 2 dives cost me 70 pounds and that was the cheapest option!

So apart from the diving in the day we spent the evenings with all our diving 'buddies' drinking cocktails and eating more nice food. We discovered the 'worlds best pancake' too at this little stand outside our hotel, nutella and banana pancakes, yum yum!

Anyway, by Tuesday we thought we better move on so we got the boat back to the mainland and a bus to Krabi on the west coast. Yesterday we went to the beach for the day by longtail boat which was great, its the coolest way to travel here as its so breezy, the only problem is when you stop and its bloody boiling! The beach was nice but I got stung by a jellyfish! I was in the water and felt like a cigarette burn and then when I got out I had red lumps on my ankle and a tentacle mark. A local lady gave me some leaves to rub on it which seemed to do the trick so after 20 minutes the pain had gone! James also managed to stab his foot on a rock while he was exploring a cave so we weren't too lucky all in all!

Today we have been on an organised tour to 'James Bond Island'. It was the set for 'The Man with the Golden Gun' and is pretty touristy to say the least, but still interesting to see. We got taken there by longtail boat too and then onto a monkey temple and waterfall. We had lunch at a Muslim floating village which was quite surreal actually - basically, after being on the boat for about an hour this village pops out from the middle of nowhere and has 2000 habitants, all on water! Our lunch was lovely but the markets we strolled around afterwards were awful. There were stuffed pufferfish and corals everywhere which certainly put all of us off buying anything at all.

Well, my stomach is telling me it's dinner time soon so I better go with it! Our next stop from here is Koh Phi Phi island tomorrow where we'll stay for a few days before heading North so until then...