So here we are, sitting in an internet cafe waiting for the moment when we have to begin the long and arduous journey back home to blighty, but first il update you on our last few days in Thailand. Firstly i have to mention the diving, which was very good, some of the highlights being 1 - saw a shark and actually chased it 2 - Went Cave diving (sort of) - a very cool small cave where we saw a couple of moray's and a gargantuan trigger fish - still wa...

Its official...we were swimming with sharks!!! After our briefing on the boat about what we might see on our dive, that included the possibility of sharks, we had been in the water no more than 5 mins or so and had just descended to 18 metres when our dive master made the signal for 'shark' and pointed into the deep blue ahead of us and started swimming frantically towards it. It was at this moment that the thought went through my head. 'oh, ok so we're swi...

Hi guys...its official...I'm a qualified open water scuba diver, woo hoo!!!!!!!! yay very chuffed with myself - i was meant to do the whole PADI dive course a few years ago in Oz but it never happened due to a combo of seasickness and fear of the sea and what lurks beneath it...now im going diving with chris in the morning and in a couple days we're going back to the dive site where his dad and rachael saw 6 foot sharks this morning, ahhh!!! (dont worry mum ...

Hi All Update on the last few days, we were scheduled to meet up with my Dad, and in order to make sure everything was ok we went to the nice posh hotel he had kindly put up us in for a night to make sure everything was hunky dorey... alas its not a good sign when you get to the reception of the hotel and all the staff keep saying is "construction" over and over whilst pointing to some semi built bungalows.. mmm something amiss here! Oh yeah - this i...

ok so where were we... ahh yes Haad Rin in Koh Phangan. Our last couple days in Haad Rin were spent 1. in a bar watching friends with a few beers while it lashed it down outside and 2. on the 'amazing reggae magic boat trip'..only without the amazing or magic parts! not the best trip we've been on as it involved spending lots of time at bigged up waterfalls that were more of a trickle and 45 mins on the boat through a storm to snorkle in a very choppy sea, BUT,...