Completely overcast all morning so grabbed some lunch and headed down to the Hello Bar where we met up with Scott and Dave. It wasn't long before John, Greg and Maddie joined us for a couple of drinks. The conversations we have had with this group of people has always been completely full of randomness to say the least - Nature - John's personal view of frogs, monkeys, scorpions, fish...basically, everything associated with nature. Hated it. The colour or...

Completed our advanced diver course, with one of the dives having us go to a wreck site. Unbelievable eerie!! We were taken down to 30metres where it was dark and we couldnt see more than 2-3metres ahead. We swam along a line for a couple of minutes and then all of a sudden we hit this big black shadow which loomed over us! Claire was well scared! We were taken for swim around and over the ship, where the sails just hung over us and we could see where the ...

Had to move chalets this morning as there is a big wedding on the island so our place is now fully booked. Only had to go next door though so it aint too bad - just hardwork having to pack and then unpack! It's a hard life. Went down to the beach in the afternoon where we just lazed in the shade swinging on hammocks and falling a sleep for a couple of hours. Headed to the sunset bar at night where we again had more beers and chatted to an English couple who a...

Didn't do much during the day today, just went down to the beach and chilled out at the sunset bar where we ended up staying all day and night. On our way back to our chalet at about 11pm we bumped into Jonathon, one of the guys from the theatre group, where we decided to go for one last drink before hitting the sack as we were all still tired from the night before...3am and after meeting a very funny set of malay locals who refused to stop buying us drinks, tak...

Today we started our advanced open water diving course. The first of our 2 dives today was our peak performance buoyancy which basically fine tuned how we float underwater, and move around with out sinking to o fast or going up too fast. The second was the navigation, we were dreading this one a bit as we were so appalling back in Vietnam with the compass, but we managed it really well, we had to swim a perfect square over the coral and a few other exercises as...