10 May

Up at 06h00, we pack our bags, have breakfast and start the 20 minute walk to the pier where we will take the ferry to Koh Tao. Its been a couple of years since we've had to survive a day with only 2 hours sleep and buckets of alcohol in our systems….In all honesty only sleeping the 2 hours was probably the best thing for us, more sleep and we may have started to feel the lack of it more. The ferry to Koh Tao was not so enjoyable, the sea was very stormy and although I didn't get sea sick Leanne experienced some of it. At least it was only a hour trip!

To our benefit we had arranged with Simple life divers to pick us up and take us to their resort, The Wind Resort. The room was decent but they were prepared to give us quite a discount on the rescue course if we found other accommodation, which we preferred. We dropped our bags and went looking along the beach but found nothing which we wanted to stay in or could afford. We therefore decided to stay the night and pay for the accommodation, strangely they required our passports to allow us to stay there.

Looking for mine we discovered it was missing! We had not received it back on the day we gave the scooter back at our accommodation at the Private guesthouse in Koh Phanang. Luckily we still had a business card of the accommodation! One of the instructors of simple life divers still on the island agreed to pick it up and bring it once they had recovered from the previous evenings festivities, apparently 2 days later.

We unloaded our bags in the room and left to find water at the nearest 7/11, by this time really feeling the aftermath of the party last night. Along the way we spotted a guesthouse whose rooms were clean, had TV and a refrigerator for only 400 Baht. We decided to move the following morning to our new accommodation, Wandee. Leanne went to sleep for a few hours while I updated the blog and made some calculations regarding our costs.

We wandered through the town in just over an hour before finding a little restaurant where we shared a green curry while watching the Spanish F1. On our way home we were handed a pamphlet by a lady boy of a "free buffet" and the Queen's Cabaret, unsure what the cost implications would be but still curious, we set out to find the newly opened restaurant. After walking in circles we found it, dinner was bread dipped in olive oil with some toppings and spaghetti with sauce. If we had known about it we would not have eaten, but it was a nice supplement to our dinner. We headed home for an early evening since we would be diving tomorrow.