Marilyn and I are now officially Open Water Divers! We finished our course yesterday, getting down to our record and deepest legal dive at 18 meters. In celebration of our success, Marilyn, Irish Sarah, dive instructor Rick and I all passed around the beers and watched the video that had been made of our last two dives. The people there watched it twice! Apparently its somewhat rare for an entire group to dive without wetsuits and when we had to practice taking o...

Aghhh! I had no idea that SCUBA was so freaking awesome! I expected it to be, but geez, this is just too fantastic. When last I wrote, Marilyn and I were sadly leaving Bottle Beach, and I missed it terribly for about 3 hours until we arrived at Big Blue Diving on Sai Ree beach here on Koh Tao. First, I must note that Koh Tao is a teeny little island whose biggest attraction is SCUBA. Every person I’ve met here is connected with the dive business in some wa...