We booked the boat back to Kuriburi for today so we just had the morning to enjoy Surin for the last time. As we ate breakfast a monkey strutted past us then casually climbed in the tree to relax. We followed suit and lay in our hammock watching the tide come in then packed up our things from within the tent. Lee shook his sleeping bag and a giant spider jumped out. It wasn't a tarantula but it was black and white striped?! Not friendly colours if its anything l...

We booked a scuba trip for the morning leaving at 9am. Everything was paid for with vouchers. You had to buy food vouchers at the start of the day. No money crossed hands with the people who worked there only the designated coupon person excepted bahts. We took our scuba masks and headed to the 'pier'. A man in a long boat took us to one site, pointed which way to head then sailed off once we were off his boat. We have never seen fish like this. We thought the s...

We woke to another day of relaxing on the gorgeous beach. Snorkeling, swimming, sunbathing, swinging in the hammock, listening to music, reading a book, twitching at the lack of Internet connection, walking along the beach, drawing in the sand, eating packet noodles for dinner, having a luxury can of coke as a filler before boiled rice with sweet chili sauce for tea then bed.

The boat was a speed boat which was an hour and a half. I read as Lee nodded off behind his shades. When we finally came close to the islands the views were breathtaking. The water was crystal clear and the islands looked untouched. Everything was so natural. The speed boat pulled up at an island were a pier had been made out of plastic cartons tied together. We left the speed boat and got in a long boat. The long boat took us around the island to a beach that at...