After the last three and a half days we decided to sleep in this morning! We got up had a coffee in the room and then went out for some late breakfast. When you walk up and down the streets in Thailand most shops or houses have bird cages hung outside with quite large birds living inside like the one in the photograph, a lot of the time too people are carrying them riding their scooters! Our plan for today was to look into some more Vietnam as we haven't as yet ...

Very early start this morning, we were at the boat for 7.00am. Sarah had got our kit out but we had to pack it into our bags and then wait for the long tail to take us to the boat. Once on the boat we set up our kit as usual and were on our way to the dive site called Twins. Basically our dives today were just fun dives so we would only be doing minimal skills. This was great, we were really looking forward to these two dives. In the first we saw; scorpion fish, ...

It was another 9.00am start for us this morning, Jay and Justus had been asked to come in a little earlier to catch up to where we had got to with the DVDs. Then we joined them to watch the last two altogether, after this we went through more homework answers and that was the morning over with. Sarah did have a bit of news though, she said we would not be on the afternoon boat as planned tomorrow because there would be no room but we would be on the morning boat ...

We started at 9.00am at Master Divers this morning, we went upstairs with Sarah and went through some of the homework that we had all already done. After this we went down to the kit room to try on wet suits etc. There wasn't a wet suit to fit James but she said if he had a t-shirt and swimming shorts he was happy to wear that would be fine. We were also all shown how to set up the air onto our jackets and make sure everything is working correctly. After this we ...

We were asked to be in at 1.00pm today to start the course in the classroom. So in the morning we went out to get breakfast and then chilled until it was time to leave. When we got there we met our instructor Sarah and there was a guy who was training to be an instructor who would be with us for the whole course too called Thijs (pronounced tice). Sarah gave us a tour of the building and explained anything we needed to know then took us upstairs to get started. W...