worldtrip

Well, it’s all good here in the land of smiles.  I spent 3 days on Koh Pha-ngan.  Did a few days of snorkelling and took a trip by boat around the island.  It was pretty quiet there, because they had just finished the famous full moon party the day before I arrived.  I met an Ausie guy named Ian and it happened to be his 40th birthday, so there were some fireworks on the beach, and a lot of beer to drink.  He bought some kind of a balloon that you light on fire, and it drifts into the sky – fortunately he is a fire fighter in Australia, so there were no buildings incinerated.  My last day I rented a kayak and paddled to a small island.  I went to do some snorkelling, and when I came up from a dive it was pouring rain, and a rainbow was in the sky – (sorry, no picture of that).  A lot of the local people were busy all day chipping oysters off the rocks below my room.

Today I took the ferry to Koh Tao.  Pulling into the harbor you could see that the water is crystal clear, and there are tons of people in town, mostly for diving.  Made a reseervation for tomorrow – they told me that they saw a whale shark today, and had the pictures to prove it, so I’m hoping I’ll get lucky – will be taking my UW camera.  Inernet access is better here, so I’ll try to post pix if they materialize.  It’s a little complicated, because I have 3 cameras, and this site requires all pix to be resized – quite a pain, but it’s nice to keep a record of things.  

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