Kho Toa, and Scuba Diving

Heya,

Well we've just finished our Open Water Certification, it was fucking fun, Finished up today with an 18 metre dive. Moray Eels and Angel Fish and stuff, was very fun. I've managed to stay off the piss fairly well here due to the diving, apart from the first night, where I sustained a double "dodgy pork" and "too much beer" injury and spent the day in bed. I spent most of the first night at a Dragon Bar talking to the owner who's an expat who grew up in the Fitzroy area, it was nice to talk about home for a while. It did mean that I was a day behind Roh, but with one of his drinking benders finaly catching up with him, we re-synced fairly quickly. Today a guy with a Video Camera tagged along so we just bought the video of the days activities, It's on DVD, so i prolly wont be able to get a copy of it online until I get to UK, but it was pretty cool. Roy did the happy dance underwater. Tomorrow we start the Advanced Open Water Course, diving past about 25 metres means the Nitrogen in the tank starts to get you high, I'm guessing its quite similar to doing Nangs. But all teh instructors says its a heap of fun. We also do a Night dive, and two specialty dives. We have picked Advanced Buoyancy Control, and Photography. So I'll stick a heap of photos from our adventures underwater online in the next few days.

We ( as expected ) have started to slip on our schedule a little bit, we were planing to go down south a bit more to Malaysia but have officially ditched that idea, and are also considering pushing Sri Lanka Back a little so we get more time here, and less time in Beijing.

For those of you having any issues looking at photos, use teh TAGS option if you go http://photos.willcowan.com/tags/thailand you go all my uploaded Thailand photos use
http://photos.willcowan.com/tags/bangkok for bangkok photoshttp://photos.willcowan.com/tags/khophangan for the full moon party photos and, http://photos.willcowan.com/tags/khotoa for diving photos.

Hope every one is doing really well, congrats to Dave for selling Jerry ( we will miss you Jerry have a safe and happy journey ) speak to you soon

Will Cowan
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