Awesome result in the rugby!! Looking forward to seeing all the Australian connections!

We arrived in Bangkok about 1am, and luckily the place we had stayed in before had a spare room. Bangkok didn't seem as humid and hot as last time, but maybe that's because we are getting used to it. After catching up on some sleep we headed to the Grand Palace. The Grand Palace is made up of 2 sections. The Temple of the Emerald Budda and then the Grand Palace itself. This is no longer used as the Monarch's main residence but is used for state functions. Pretty...

After the short ferry from Koh Phangan we arrived in Koh Tao and managed to start on another diving course that had already started - they are good salesmen those Crystal Dive people! So after some discussion with Carsten the crazy German instructor and a very quick lunch we started our Enriched Air (Nitrox) Course. This now qualifies us to dive on air with added Oxygen to allow us to safely stay deeper longer. Spent the afternoon in a classroom doing lots of t...

Reeallylong buss journey from Malaysia back up to the east coast islands. This time we headed to Koh Phangan, most famous for the Full Moon, Half Moon, Black Moon and any other moon they can think of parties! We had heard mixed reports of the FMP, with up to 30,000 people attending, and non-druggies outcasts! We met up with Fay and Jenny, and spent a couple of days chilling by the pool as they were both disabled from a quad biking accident - muppets! But a warn...

We left Bangkok flooded from torrential rain to head down to the islands to the east of Thailand and had to walk to our overnight bus through knee deep water! we changed to a ferry at about 6am and arrived on Koh Tao at about 9am, where we were convinced to start our Open Water dive course that afternoon! The first couple of das were fairly boring just watching theory videos so we had some idea of what we were doing later!We then swapped groups to join Team Swit...