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Leaving Koh Tao

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

All good things must come to an end or so they say.  It doesn’t mean we like it!  Well our time on Koh Tao is coming to an end, boo hoo.  We have met many wonderful people during our stay and will think of them often I am sure as we continue our journey.  It is tough because as sad as we are to leave, we are equally excited to join Mark and Deb on an awesome 2 month diving marathon 🙂  I know we will be coming back to Koh Tao and Buddha View to either dive or do the IDC course!!  A big thank you to everyone at Buddha View, the Instructors, the lovely Dive Masters, our fellow DMT’s and the rest of the staff!  You sure helped make our stay wonderful, made us better divers and on occassion a little too drunk (thanks Pong and Danny, you very handsome men 🙂 !! If anyone reading this goes to Buddha View make sure to tip the Bar Staff they are awesome!   

Dive Masters at last!!

Monday, August 18th, 2008

Well after much hard work and lots of diving we have finally finished our course!  The last test we had to do was the traditional Snorkel Test! Well I am sure most of you are sitting here reading this and wondering what in the world is a snorkeling test.  Well let me explain. A snokel test is where you sit in a chair with a blacked our mask on your face and a snorkel in your mouth and one of your good friends pours a bucket of alcohol down the snorkel that you have to finish.  Sounds wonderful, any of you having flashbacks to college frat parties or nights .  Yep pretty much the same thing!  Well Jared and I had the pleasure of doing this together and although I did finish first,  I left alot of it on Jared’s lap so you be the judge.  Jared was a good boy and drank every drop.  However afterwards who was having to carry him around, because he drank every drop!  Yep you guess it that would be me.  Well ok a couple of times I had to get assistance, drunk Jared is very hard to pick up. However in his defense he did have 4 beers ahead of time and since he is good friends with the bar staff they were nice enough to put 4 shot of Tequilla in his bucket along with the rum and pineapple juice.  Mine was just rum and pineapple!  Nice that they look out for the girls hehe!!  We will have photos soon, I know our friends can’t wait to post there pictures of us!

Now to the person that made up this stupid test, REALLY how can anyone drink that much liquid in one go. My stomach hurt for at least a 1/2 hour afterwards because I was so full.  Well I am happy to say that we made it and we are now Dive Masters!  

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Underwater Photo Specialty

Monday, August 18th, 2008
Well Maryanne has decided to learn about taking photos underwater given our up coming trips!  Well here is some photos from her first go! neudi.JPGdscf3669.JPGdscf3666.JPG[Continue reading this entry]

Loads of sharks, Muay Thai and a bored Jared!

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
I have been very busy lately assisting in classes so that I can get Signed off (Complete all my required tasked for my Dive Master Cert). Well I am telling you this because the other day I was assisting ... [Continue reading this entry]

Pictures of Whale Shark

Saturday, August 9th, 2008
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100 Dive Adventure Trip Coming Aug 26th!!

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Okay I know a lot of you have been wondering and asking what we are up to after we leave Koh Tao.  Well since it is fast approaching for us to leave this little island, I guess we had to ... [Continue reading this entry]

Pictures

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Okay here are a few pictures for all you asking for them.  There is some from bowling if you look close you can see the pin guys in the back of the lane!  Some from our Deep and Wreck Dive ... [Continue reading this entry]

ITS TRYING TO EAT ME!!!

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Alright to set the day up for this tale of horror, it actually started last night.  We are sitting at the dive shop like we normally do when it is raining.  We chatted with one of the full time staff about assisting ... [Continue reading this entry]

Master Scuba Divers!!

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Okay we have hit another milestone in our diving adventures yesterday!!  Yippie  The last speciality we did was Peak Performance Bouyancy, basically it is a course that helps us to be better with our air consumption, keeping off the bottom ... [Continue reading this entry]

Visa Run

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Alright we just got back from our Visa Run.  I can't remember if we told you what that really entails.  First we decided to take the day time ferry over to Chumpon.  This is a high speed catamran, it is ... [Continue reading this entry]