Last day in Koh Tao today which is sad. We had a relaxed morning and then sat by the beautiful pool looking out over the stunning sea, turquoise coloured-literally paradise! Could have stayed sitting there looking out to the sea forever, the photos really don't do it justice! After some lunch we went and got our photos put onto my memory stick from Adnan and then went to the town and wondered around looking for last minute presents whih we unfortunately couldn't ...

Day 3 - yay! We are officially Open Water Divers! Such a good day today. We packed up our gear and set off to the boat after a quick test on chapters 4&5. The journey to the first dive site was about 45mins so Adnan gave us our final exam to do together and we got it all right bar the dive table ones, but 'no worry, no one use dive table any more, all computer' was his verdict!! Our first dive was a fun dive down to 18m! Had to equalize my ears quite a lot. M...

Day 2 - really good day today. Arrived on time! Went over what we read last night and then were given a quick test. Adnan then explained what we would be doing in our first dive, and the new skills we woul be practicing. The sub was out when we got to tw dive site and the water a lovely blue. We practiced all the skills we ha learnt yesterday and then did the new ones, having our tank turned off so we woul know what to expect if ever your tank stopped working, a ...

Day 1 of our Open Water PADI Course - we started off the day by getting up at 10 to 9 (as I thought we were meant to be in at 10) and rushing to the dive school for 9! We were first told a few basic skills by our instructor Adnan from Turkey, and then were shown our equipment. We packed our dive bags containing our 'fins' aka flippers, mask, wetsuit, BCD and regulator. On the boat he showed us how to attach our regulators to our air cannisters and check the air e...

Arrived in Koh Tao about 6am this morning after catching the overnight ferry from Surat Thani. The beds were very thin mattresses on the floor, all joined together and thank god it wasn't full as I didn't really want to be stuck next to a fat Thai man! Slept relatively well and was a pretty calm journey which was good. Raining when we got here but we got picked up by our hotel, which is really nice, aircon, right on the beach, 2 pools and brekky! We napped when w...