Today was our last day on Koh Tao before heading back to Koh Samui, and we made the most of our time on Sairee beach. Luckily we had another gorgeous day of sunshine. The tide was so high thid morning there was no beach left which made my morning run a bit tricky. Luckily the water was gorgeously clear so I spent longer than normal swimming my lengths of our bit of beach, and was pleased to see Scott join me halfway through. After brekkie and emailing at a beach...

I must be nearly time to come home - I spent five hours in a cafe using the internet to send emails to my contacts in an attempt to drum up some work for when I get home. I popped back this morning to reply to a few responses. This time I had Julia with me and I enjoyed an English breakfast (not like the one's back home though) and Julia had smoked salmon with poached egg . We headed back to the beach around 11am and spent the rest of the day lounging. We did a g...

Still on a high from our fantastic round the island snorkelling trip yesterday, we spent the day relaxing in the sunshine and the sea with Andy and Jodie, regailing them with all the stories of the underwater world from the day before. I'd even seen a baby shark! We have spent a good while at Sairee beach now and the days on the beach are all fairly samey, so not too much to report really. In the evening I had the most beautifully tender and fresh whole white sn...

A snorkelling we will go, a snorkelling we will go, hey ho, hey ho, a snorkelling we will go. Equalize the pressure, that's what I remember my instructor telling me many years ago when I went diving in Majorca. These words initially echoed in my mind as I snorkelled deeper and deeper into the inky depths below. I could feel the pressure from the water push against my ear drums. It's quite incredible how much weight water produces even at a shallow depth. Ju had t...

We had planned to meet Andy and Jodie and hire a taxi boat to go snorkelling round the island today, but unfortunately Jodie had fallen ill with a tummy bug. We decided to postpone until tomorrow and Scott and I settled down for another day on the beach in glorious sunshine. I was well into my reading now, having finished a whole novel front to back yesterday. Throughout the day I was packing on the factor 50 sun lotion we'd bought in Australia, determined not to...