Sorry for the lack of blog entries of late, we're been beaching it in the south of Thailand.
We are now on our fourth island, having bused it down to Krabi from Bangkok a couple of weeks ago where we caught a boat out to Ko Lanta. We spent four days swimming in the Andaman Sea, playing beach volleyball with a group of 18-20 year olds from Alberta, Canada and we even managed to get in a good deep sea fishing trip for Simon. Simon provided for us and brought in a tuna that we took to our trusty drinking venue to have barbequed for us that night.
Then we set off for Ko Ngai which is the most amazingly beautiful island. It has a handful of resorts and nothing else. Very peaceful and relaxing, so much so that we really didn't take our cameras out of their cases. The island itself has crystal clear waters with a sandy bottom and about 50m out there is a fantastic reef for snorkelling. So we basically spent our days sunnying on the beach and snorkelling on the reef with a one day kayaking trip around the island. Oh yeah, and more beach volleyball. We'll be trying out for the Canadian team when we return.
Ko Ngai was actually pretty amazing in terms of marine life as well. We saw a turtle on the reef and on our second to last day there were loads of fish mating in the shallow waters which soon contained millions of fish eggs everywhere, very cool.
Our next destination was Ko Samui where Simon had arranged for us to stay in a very swanky resort for my birthday. It was fabulous by the way and I was spoiled rotten.
We are now on Ko Tao and will be heading out on a snorkelling trip tomorrow. Ko Tao is a great place for diving but there is limited choice for Simon given we doesn't have his PADI certificate so we figured we'd check out the snorkelling first and then decide on the diving.
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Hi guys, glad to hear you're doing well! You're not missing much round here.
Si, we've been doing okay in the league, were 4/0 tabletopping till we played Apaches (3/0, apparently with reinforcements). I was out with repercussions of wisdom tooth surgery on Monday, so trusting Jon's text we lost 69:70 after being down 10 most of the game, then staging a great comeback in the fourth and go up 6 only to loose it in the dying seconds (0.6 to be exact) via death by freethrow.
I haven't been involved as much as I would want in the last month or so, for good and not so good reasons. I spent two weeks in Chile in November, brilliant holiday, sun, food, friendliness, all good. Then got ill and now the tooth thing. Never mind, planning to attack again next year.
Are you going to celebrate Christmas? And how?
Take care and try not to lay a million eggs in unsuspecting Thai waters.
Christian
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