We left Koh Tao at 3pm on the high speed catamaran.  This boat usually takes 2 hours to get to the mainland, but 10 minutes after we left….. it was dead in the water.
After a while, the boat engineers managed to get the thing running on half power, and the ferry took 5 hours to get to Chumphon..
Luckily, we had a 4 hour window in between the ferry and train we needed to catch… so we arrived at the train station with 30 mins to spare.
Once the train had pulled up, we searched for our seats / beds for the 10 hour journey to Bangkok. Our seats were in the 2nd class carriage (but at least we had air con!)…
As you can see below… it was a bit tight, and click on the last picture to see what I was saying at the time…

Where the time goes  ..I just dont know….

We’ve been busy diving and finishing off the last of the transplants at Junkyard which are now looking fantastic.  All of the trays have been filled and we’ve only got a couple of the rope nursaries to move.  So only a few more visits should be needed in order to transplant everything.

The really good news is that  ‘Buoyancy World 2.0’ has finally been deployed.   We were beginning to think it would never happen due to the multiple cancellations and monsoon season looming.

Here is a video of the ship going down…

And here are some pics of it underwater with some of our nursery transplants…

What a  productive day!

Simon and I spent the last few days at Junkyard, transplanting corals to and from the coral nursery whilst Nathan,  collected broken coral fragments and met us back at the boat.  After many dives over the days dive carefully cutting the coral fragments down to size and placing them in plastic tubing, ready to refill the empty nursery trays

Now, we have refilled the trays, and have a new batch of babies to grow!! Wish them luck!!