The last few days have been fun as Si’s been on the boat as well, teaching Self Reliant courses to two Chinese instructors.  It’s lovely even knowing that he’s teaching, I love to see him teach 🙂  What was funny is that both girls were really nervous  …scared I think 😀  LOL

I on the other hand have been doing coral transplants and have had a couple of ‘Adopt A Coral’s to do with funnily enough a Chinese Dive Master Trainee, Mao.   He’s a lovely chap and was so helpful throughout his training.  He reminded me of a little puppy, so eager to please.

Today, Nicole my eco intern and I were busy transplanting and moving giant clams onto our artificial reef Junkyard.  Hope my Trigger fish will leave them alone and not eat them. The clams are pretty large so they should stand a good chance.

It’s been pretty hectic.  I’ve still got my eco intern and have been diving most afternoons.   Last weekend as my student decided to go to Bali for a weeks break with her friend, Simon and I went to Samui for a break with Carsten and Tina.   We went over Friday morning and returned Monday morning which was lovely.  We did a little shopping, cheese, wine and a few veggie things for Si which we are still enjoying.   We also went Go Karting, caught a movie and had a thoroughly relaxed time.  It’s so nice to get off the island from time to time, especially for Si’s as he’s not been diving at all.

I organised a big Beach Clean Up as I was disgusted at the state of the beach when we left for Samui which went really well.  We collected 158kg of rubbish, just along the short stretch of beach which is the first thing you see at you arrive on Koh Tao  ..so that was very satisfying to do on our return.  It’s just a shame that you have to organize things like this to get people off there arses.

Wednesday and it already seems as though it’s been a long week.

I’ve been pretty busy with the DMT’s and Nicole, my eco intern.  Today, I thought it would be good to get her to make some sort of structure that we can deploy at our artificial reef, Junkyard and then transplant corals onto it.

She’s been thinking about this for a few days and came up with the idea of a turtle, as Koh Tao is ‘Turle island’.  So having worked out the rough measurements etc we met up at 9am this morning and bought the necessary rods, reebar etc which were delivered an hour or so later down at Crystal.  In the meantime I had organised the DMT’s to come and help  ..so it was up to her to delegate and get things done  …I did from time to time go down and interfere, I just couldn’t help myself,  ..as she/they didn’t seem to get getting anything done and she’s only had the DMT’s help for a couple of hours.

Anyway, as the DMT’s were only there till 12.30 and our so called professional welder, Belha didn’t show up at all this morning (sick)  ..I grabbed Will, a DM who had as much experience with a welder as I had for moral support and attempted welding the legs on but it just wasn’t working and then a miracle happened, my 2nd attempt  ..I cracked it!.  2 legs on and then came the rain LOL