We have left Koh Tao after an amazing 12 days. I pleased to announce that I am an EFR (Emergency First Response) and Rescue Diver!! It was a hard course involving lots of drowning and people around me "drowning", but I can now comfortably pull anyone out from the water if they run into trouble. Hannah also inroled in doing her open water and she is a qualified diver too!!
So now, we are on a diving holiday!
We are now on Koh Pha Ngan (Fang Nan). It's bigger than Koh Tao. That's all I can say because we just got here today!! I do miss Koh Tao, we started to make friends and become familiar faces amongst the locals. With everyone being so friendly and having something that resembled a routine (wake up, eat, go diving) I can totally understand why people never leave (or comeback). I'll be in the latter column!!
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Friday, 18 September 2009
I wanna be a Scuba diver!
Reet. We did Kanchanburi - Death railway, bridge over the Kwai also saw some outstanding waterfalls (Erwan Waterfalls), placed number six in the world top ten. It had pools we could swim in, rocks to slide down and fish that enjoy the delicacy of your dead skin.
Fast forward to Sunday, we arrived in Chumpon to get the ferry to Koh Tao the next day. Then on Monday got said ferry to Koh Tao.
Since being here I have learnt how to dive through the Open Water course. I am now a certified diver. I have enrolled on the advanced course already!! This will give me more skills underwater and will involve a deeper diver, (30m), so far I have only breached 14m. After that it's the EFR and Rescue Course and then Divemaster training. Once I have my dive master I can organise and take certified divers to dive sites - start working and earning. Divemastering is everything from planning the dive, to organising the boats, equipment and instructors. After a few years of Divemastering I can then decide to become an instructor. But that's a long way yet. If I can twist Hannah's arm I maybe "allowed' to go as far as EFR and Rescue, because after that I can complete my divemaster and start working. I've got a date with Australia first and I'm currently working away at Hannah to get her diving so she can come and experience the wonder of Davey Jones' Locker too.
Fast forward to Sunday, we arrived in Chumpon to get the ferry to Koh Tao the next day. Then on Monday got said ferry to Koh Tao.
Since being here I have learnt how to dive through the Open Water course. I am now a certified diver. I have enrolled on the advanced course already!! This will give me more skills underwater and will involve a deeper diver, (30m), so far I have only breached 14m. After that it's the EFR and Rescue Course and then Divemaster training. Once I have my dive master I can organise and take certified divers to dive sites - start working and earning. Divemastering is everything from planning the dive, to organising the boats, equipment and instructors. After a few years of Divemastering I can then decide to become an instructor. But that's a long way yet. If I can twist Hannah's arm I maybe "allowed' to go as far as EFR and Rescue, because after that I can complete my divemaster and start working. I've got a date with Australia first and I'm currently working away at Hannah to get her diving so she can come and experience the wonder of Davey Jones' Locker too.
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Sodukuthai
After Bangkok we travelled for 14 hours on a train due north to the religious captial of Chiang Mai. Smaller than BKK but houses the same amount of religious stuff. We rode elephants, conquered rapids on rafts constructed of bamboo rods and wrapped it up by going down to the local penitentiary and getting touched up by the inmates. I would like to stress that I didn't get arrested, neither did Hannah, it's part of a rehabilitation program to stop the wee ladies from coming back for another stay.
From CXY we arrived in the old capital of Sukhothai. More Wat (buddhist Churches) spotting in the local history park. Bicycles and smiles, we also rode the wierdest contraption for mass transportation yet. I cannot explain it or the joy it brings to those who ride it.
It was then onto Ayutthaya, another old captial and even more Wats but in a less delapidated state. Bicycles and sweat this time. You are now up to date and for the future; tomorrow we will depart for Kanchanaburi (bridge over the River Kwai). No more Wat spotting unfortunately, no, we will be learning just how harsh the Japs were to the POWs that had to do make their plans for a railway over unforgiving terrain possible.
From CXY we arrived in the old capital of Sukhothai. More Wat (buddhist Churches) spotting in the local history park. Bicycles and smiles, we also rode the wierdest contraption for mass transportation yet. I cannot explain it or the joy it brings to those who ride it.
It was then onto Ayutthaya, another old captial and even more Wats but in a less delapidated state. Bicycles and sweat this time. You are now up to date and for the future; tomorrow we will depart for Kanchanaburi (bridge over the River Kwai). No more Wat spotting unfortunately, no, we will be learning just how harsh the Japs were to the POWs that had to do make their plans for a railway over unforgiving terrain possible.
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