Last night, as we were about to leave the bar, Jen spotted a kitten running around. Now seeing as there were a few dogs licking their lips, we decided it would be safer for the kitten, to take it home for the night..so, we found a box, grabbed some cat food from the shop and rode the bike home with him.. Boy was he a noisy little fella!

This morning, we went back to the bar area, and asked around.. No one seems to own him, so we took him to the animal clinic, who will look after and rehouse him… we both felt quite sad dropping him off 🙁

Some exciting news… the coral nurserys that were installed on the 11th September (my last dive!) have started to come on… check out the 2 pictures below. The first one shows a new piece of coral growing out of the old one, and the 2nd shows how the coral has started to grow over the plastic tubing… long may it continue!

So, its visa run time….

As you may know, we have to get out of the country every now and again to abide by our visa requirements. So we booked another trip to the Burmese (Myanmar) border.

Our trip started at 9.15am, boarding the ferry on Koh Tao to the mainland town of Chumphon. Then once we arrived, on to a minivan for a few hours drive across to Ranong.

From Ranong, we crossed the border by boat to a resort known as The Andaman Club, through we went, and immediately back again… Back through immigration, back on the minivan, and back to Chumphon… Here is where we spent the night, as no boats were running by the time we were back.

Eating dinner on the street and a couple of Singhas, and it was bedtime… and up at 5.15am to catch the boat back to Koh Tao.

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SD

So, I ventured again to Koh Samui to visit the specialist as he had returned to the hospital. Leaving Jen on Koh Tao again, was a bit dissapointing, but she had Eco work to do, and it would have been selfish of me to ask her to come, and sit around bored with me.

Anyway, leaving Koh Tao in the morning and arriving on Samui, I caught a cab straight to the hospital. Getting in, I had my blood pressure and weight taken as per usual (weird practice they do with everybody who comes in).

Upon seeing the specialist, he hoovered my ears out again. This time however, it was not the pleasant experience it was before. Some nerve in one of my teeth didn’t like it, and it took a lot of effort to not flinch.

Once the ears were clear, he examined then, and got me to equalise. This was the 1st time in 2 weeks I had attempted equalisation… and it worked! So, he declared the perforation healed!

BUT! He also said that the bacterial infections had cleared mostly, but what remained were fungal infections… So, another course of new ear drops, and antihistamines. He anticipated 3-5 days of drops, and then 5 days before attempting to dive, if everything was cool… I am crossing my fingers!

Then it was back to the hotel, for a boring day… I went out for supplies, but I just don’t like Samui one bit… seeing English louts drunk at 5pm is not a pretty sight and is rather embarrassing to be associated with that.

So, food bought, it was back to the hotel, to play Formula 1 2010 on my PC, speak to Jenny, and bed.