In the last 7 days we’ve both been pretty busy, Simon with website design, filming and I have been doing ECO  …land and dive site clean ups and Reef Check a four day course.  

Day one is an intro for all the DMT’s (dive master trainee’s) and Reef Check students and as we’re limited with space in the Eco office.

 I could only take 6 people on the first day, which was fine in the office but very chaotic on the dives.  Only 3 students carried on for the remainder of the course which worked really well on the dives.  Yesterday was the last day of the course and today, I’ve taken the day off and it’s raining LOL..

You’ll be amazed to know that Crystal office, bar area and restaurant is being knocked down in the next week and rebuilt  …it’s pretty exciting and Im thinking that I could use lots of the cement/rubble for Junkyard, our artificial reef  ….I think when we first arrived at Crystal they’ve been talking about renovating and it’s only happening now.  That’s Thailand for you!

Today, I slept till around 10:30, so a very lazy morning and as usual, Simon had been up for a few hours working on his computer, making bread and after a cup of tea, popped out to get supplies.

I in the mean time, cleaned the house and made a Key Lime pie  ..it would have been perfect but I over whipped the cream, so it’s a little runny, nothing that an hour or two in the freezer can’t fix 😀

It’s raining, as usual on our day at home together  ..good and cool time to sort out things and clean.

Hi everyone!

Simon and I are both well.  Yesterday, we both had a lovely relaxing day off  ..well, saying that I didn’t do a lot while Si made bread, went shopping, did some website stuff and made dinner which was delicious.  I am spoilt but so is he LOL
We’ve been having a few thunder storms, mostly at night and this is a picture that one of the Instructors caught on camera.    The rain has actually been pretty refreshing but for some reason it always pours down when we’re going to or leaving the office. 😀

Today, I’m in the ECO office waiting for an eco student to reappear  …he checked in this morning at Crystal and then hasn’t been seen since.  Strange!

So, another week and Monsoon truly hit Koh Tao.

Lots of rain brought some uninvited guests to the house, usually while Jen was coming out the shower… Screams and ballerina dancing ensued, with me trying to remove them with a tiny broom.

One particular snake was in our roofing, and got annoyed with me trying to move it with the broom so literally flew through the air at me, which brought yelps from me and a scream so fierce that the staff at Hacienda, all looked concerned and shouted if we were ok..

Another guest was a little more welcome….

This little friendly fellow wanted to get out of the rain. I had the front and back door open, so beside the initial shock when he waltzed in and made me jump. He laid on the floor for several hours snoozing outside of the rain…

When Jen has not been doing Eco, she has been cooking.!  Yes… I know… its incredible!!  She has finally cracked an awesome Key Lime pie (with a little help from her sister Fiona)

Also making 2 Roast dinners in 1 week amazed me… including Bubble & Squeak for breakfast the next morning… it was lovely!!

In the meantime, I have been hard at work on websites (yawn!!) and attempting to replace the screen on my laptop, which turned out to be a total waste of time because the new screen was broken too!

Thats it really… 

x

SD