After Koh Samui & Koh Phangan comes Koh Tao - an island much smaller than the other two and now famous for its snorkelling and scuba diving. Many tourists come to Koh Tao and complete a Padi certificate in diving of various stages and degrees, some do it to just experience diving and seeing the fishes, others complete a 5 day course so they can eventually become the instructor and lead dives.
Koh Tao has many resorts and hostels that specifically host the diving option and Padi certificate, we looked into having a trial dive but never got around to doing it, anyway, the snorkelling is cheap and you see much of the same thing as with the trial dive.
We stayed at Big Fish Resort on Chaolk Baan - is was nice and quiet but not too far from the night life, bars and restaurants.
Ignore the mess, but our room opens out onto the beach!!!! -------------------------->
Isaac & Sam - with us again, this time on Koh Tao. They were fun to be around and made our excursions a little bit more exciting.
After Koh Tao - Isaac & Sam went back to Bangkok to fly back home to the UK.
On one day Ann and I took off on the moped for our own little adventure, we found a special little place on top of a hill not too far from where we were staying, it over looked shark bay. We had a banana shake and watched the day go by, it was nice.
Shark bay - actually we are unsure if that is it's real name but it was what we called it.
Sam had her birthday on Koh Tao and we got to celebrate it with her by going on a snorkelling day trip. Throughout the day we stopped off at about 5 different locations around the island for a dip and finally visited a small island that has been made a national park sort of thing for a rest a relax time.
Isaac and John sneakily organised a cake through Mam, (the lady that runs the guest house we were staying at) and she - equally as sneaky got the taxi driver to sneak it on to the boat and give it to the captain and crew to hide until after lunch. It was pretty special for Sam, especially because two boat loads of snorkellers joined in to sing happy birthday to her making her a very embarrassed birthday girl.
The day was really nice, we saw some reef sharks, loads of colourful fishes and corals and some great island scenery.
End of a great day - everyone still happy but a little worn out!!!
A few days later - John tried out a traditional Thai style of Tattooing - with bamboo. He found a nice, clean shop and spoke with the people there and finally decided on an image that came from a Thai story that he knows and likes. The tattoo took around 4.5hrs.
WARNING - THE NEXT TWO IMAGES MAY DISTURB SOME VIEWERS
So we had a little accident and Ann's toe was dislocated. The worst part of the whole experience was that the doctor on Koh Tao would not try and fix it and insisted that she spend a night in hospital and we take the morning ferry back to Koh Samui. So they fussed over her, took her blood pressure, temperature, gave her some pain killers and a dip until morning, then send us to Koh Samui with a nurse, who again continued to take her pulse, blood pressure, and temperature every half hour, even whilst she obviously was having a bout of sea sickness.
The boat ride was in parts quite terrifying, the boat swayed from side to side in the massive swell and to make things worse for Ann the air conditioning unit above her dropped about 500mls of ice cold water on her with every big sway - eventually she moved seats. Finally we got to Samui unscathed a little giddy and an ambulance was waiting at the end of the pier. We were taken to Samui Bangkok Hospital and within the hour Ann's toe was jerked back into place with a little help from a little morphine and a nice Doctor. A few hours later and a few phone calls to the insurance company - Ann was discarded and we were on our way back to the Samui Beach Resort where we stayed 3 weeks ago.
See below for the grossly dislocated big left toe.
Not as gross as you expected now was it...................
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