We made our way to the restaurant on the beach and passed the morning looking out into the clear sea before heading back to get ready for our first 'fun' dive! We planned on just the one dive as it's quite expensive for us. We were really nervous as this was the first time we had no instructor or somebody to help us - it was just us and a guide and a couple of other divers. The first thing we noticed was that the metal floor of a dive boat that had been sat in the scorching sun all morning was easily hot enough to burn through foot skin and create instant blisters, we son realised that there was nothing you could do about this apart from take the pain like a man - Dave kind of yelped and skipped across to the shade and Claire just literally wanted to cry it hurt that much!

We wet up our equipment and entered the water and made our way down to 15m deep. The visibilty was about 12 metres which we thought was amazing compared to the 2metres we had learnt in in Vietnam! The dive went really well and we lucky enough to see 2 huge sea turtles, Claire saw a ray hiding under a rock as well and thousands of fish swimming round us. After the dive we felt really lucky to have seen the turtles and it took about 2 seconds for us to change our mind and do the second dive of the day that the boat was scheduled to do!

The Second dive, we were taken to just over 20 metres quite quickly as we had to keep up with the other people on our dive who had done over 300 dives and were a lot quicker getting down than us, we managed it though and kept up, we were in a rush because there was a rumour going round that a whale shark was nearby! The dive went well, we got to go through coral swim throughs, tunnels and caves which were really tight and there were a few trigger fish about. These little b*****s are about the size of a tennis racket and very terratorial they have sharp teeth and won't think twice about biting you if you get too close, fortunatley we didn't! We were just about to finish the dive and come to the surface when all of a sudden a dark cloud swam above us from the distance, a whale shark! It was amazing. About 5-6 metres long, and really slow it was so huge! It like something off 'Planet Earth' but we were there - about 1 metere away! We got to swim with it for about 20 minutes before our ran out and we had to surface! We were well chuffed, some people have done over a 1000 dives and have never seen one and we got to see one on our second dive!! To think that we were originally not going to bother with this dive as well, we have now agreed that when we go diving we will always do both the dives!

Our budget is now focused on saving up to go diving where ever we go now - it's going to be quite an expensive hobby!

After a quick dip in the pool when we got back - we went to the town for some tea. We went to watch a 'queens' show which was a cabaret style show, performed entirely by ladyboys! They mimed to a few famous diva songs and it was a god laugh, when they started asking the lads to volunteer to go back stage with them and perform later, we left pronto, much to Dave's relief.