Paradise found

Hey everyone,

Well I told you in the last post that we were headed to a little island called Koh Tao in the andaman sea. We arrived there on Thursday afternoon and after a bit of searching, we found a place that looked like it might provide us with a week of relaxation and diving. Wellll...

First the diving... We headed our Friday morning to our first dive site and the visibility was only about 5 metres, which sucked, and our divemaster seemed to be lost, just swimming in lazy circles. We then were told that we had to surface while me and Cat both had tons of air in our tanks. The next dive was no better. We took the afternoon off to think about things and decided (foolishly) to go on a night dive with this same company. They gave Cat a torch that didnt work and the ocean was so rough I got seasick, and almost puked on an american... I didnt actually puke but it was close.

Second, our accomodations... Koh Tao it turns out is a place where people in their teens and early 20's come to do dive courses and party, and our room was in the thick of things. We managed to get our room changed, and then the hotel decided to increase our rate since we werent diving with them. Well, we decided that a change was in order so we left Koh Tao altogether and headed to the neighboring island of Koh Phangnan.

We didnt have accomodations set up when we got there and our taxi driver ended up leaving us on the side of the road in the general vicinity of where we wanted to be, so we started going from resort to resort dragging our luggage behind us, looking at rooms and hoping to find the perfect spot that we could spend the rest of our time relaxing before coming home.

Our luck changed once we got to the Haad-yao Bayview Resort. We are quite literally staying in what feels like one of those corona commercials. Our room overlooks a bay that is about a mile long with white sandy beaches and overhanging palm trees. It is even more dazzling at night. We had dinner 10 feet from the ocean and watched a big electrical storm pass across our field of view while we ate. Today I will get pics and try to post them, but for now, I am gonna go get a massage on the beach, dip in the pool, read, nap and relax... big day ahead of me!

Later,

Tim and Cat