I’ve just finished a Reef Check conservation course with a 15 year old Indian guy.  It was interesting, very testing at times but understandable from an only child who’s clearly been spoilt.  All ended well and his parents are very proud of him.  I’m just happy he’s happy and his parents are happy,

Simon is been a little less busy.  Thankfully the European football has come to an end and I will actually get to spend some quality time with him instead of him coming home, eating and then immediately falling asleep or eating at ridiculous hours.

The weathers been pretty dreadful  …the mornings have been lovely and sunny and then around lunchtime, the winds picked up and the rains has come.  This is brilliant for the corals, as the water temperature is slowly reducing and likelihood of further bleaching looks doubtful.  

I was actually cold on the boat yesterday as we finished our first dive site clean up.   The wind was blowing, the rain pelting down boy it was good to go home and have a hot shower.  It’s days like this that it would be so good to have a bath.

I’m still cycling and swimming, not as much as I should.  I just need to get back into a routine and make more of an effort 😀  I have tried to get into hula hooping  ..but it’s a lot harder than I remember.

I have been baking, to a degree.  I’ve made flapjacks and a key lime pie  ….so that’s good going in my book 😀  LOL

Finally the festival is over and we ended getting 2500 baht in prize money.  In fact everyone got 2,500 baht due to the fact that not many dive schools entered.  All a bit odd but at least we won something  😀

Si’s still having to stay all hours at Crystal due to the bar.  This Euro football is such a pain but once it’s over, he’ll get his life and sleep back  …well hopefully.     He’s organised a sweepstake for the remaining teams.  I’ve got Italy, so I’m pretty pleased, I might have a chance to win 😀

Apart from working in the office, I’ve organised a land and dive site clean up.  I thought it would be good to do one at the festival site  ..thinking that we’d find lots of stuff but the only thing we found was the odd flipflop and 1 baht  LOL   Apart from that, Keith, an old instructor is over on holiday and he’s been helping to weld some new structures for Junkyard.  I’ve not taken photo’s as of yet.

Today is the start of the Koh Tao Festival.  I met a few of the guys at the festival to put the final touches on our structure.  We’ve finally finished it, I’m so glad it’s over.   Over the past few days, I’ve had a lot some great help & idea’s and I’m pretty pleased with the way it’s turned out.  

During the festival, so many things go on.  Today was ‘FREE’ day, where shops, restaurants and cafe’s give away free bottles of water, fruit, plates of food, sweets, cans of drinks, tea, coffee and also while that was going on, Koh Tao went for the Guiness book of records for ‘Clasping Wrists’  I think they did it.  I would have been involved but I was waiting for the sculpture to be judged.  I did join the cycle ride which was great fun.

Not so many people took part in the bike ride this year due to the World Record attempt 🙁