After the success of last month, with 2 joint winners…. this month we give you “The Men”

Contestant Number 1: Hailing from New Zealand, we have the newly returned Dominic.

Dominic was on Koh Tao last year learning to become a Divemaster. He is the youngest, and palest of our contestants. He enjoys activities that involve his hands. Knitting, Finger Painting, and Belly Dancing (see the full hip sway move in this photo) are top of his agenda to be at one with his female side. He hopes for a New World Order of Sheep to rule to end the worlds problems….. BAAAAAA.

Love Muscle number 2 is Iain. From Good old Blighty, he has been an island resident for what seems like eternity. He spends his time teaching Open Water courses, being a part time Eco Warrior,  and serving drinks at Vibe. Having a hectic schedule barely leaves him enough time for working out. He enjoys listening to The Cheeky Girls, baking cakes, and dressing up in Lingerie. His big hopes for the World is that they build a KFC on Koh Tao.

Finally, our last contestant. Yes, it is a man under all that hair! His name is Johnny and also comes from England. Being a recently qualified Divemaster, Johnny is currently under the protective wings of Crystal, enhancing and training him to become a fully fledged Yeti. Up extra early every morning, he dries and combs his locks, and 3 hours later he is finally ready to go to work. He enjoys Lucys Lunches, bagels with bacon and cream cheese, Gazapacho soup…. sucking his belly in for a photo… His big hope for the world is to create a new stronger, longer lasting hairspray.

A morning observation dive at Chumphon, for our latest certified Eco Diver.

I really enjoyed this dive. It was quite spooky… very clear unless you looked down.. at 20m there was a thermocline and you could not see a thing… you can see it below as the camera swoops over Jens head…

Hope you enjoy….

Both feeling tired and bleary eyed, we hopped on the bike and rode to Crystal and got our dive kits and then walked to ‘Deep Down’ to collect my camera and made our way to the boat.  Today dive sites were ‘South West’ and ‘Shark Island’
We not been to ‘South West’ for some time, so that made a refreshing change.   The visibility was great, such a pretty dive site with hundreds of enenimies carpeting the pinnacle.  This was the only place that we’ve actually seen a whale shark last year but yet again, no sightings today.   I did manage to capture some good footage of a couple of blue spotted sting rays and butterfly fish  but not much else.  The dive went extremely quickly.  Si was having problems with his reg, which was free flowing and swimming against the current it was letting in some water which isn’t good.  We really need to do an equipment spec to sort our regulators out.
After an hour surface interval we arrived at ‘Shark Island’ (named as it looks like a sharks fin comng out of the water)  The visibility to start with was only a couple of meters which was surprising and there was a slight current.  Simon managed to spot a yellow box fish which I filmed for some time and a puffa.  We did hope to find the albino moray that’s lives there but didnt manage to find it.  In the shallows the visibility was slightly better, coming across a large school of barracuda at the end of the dive and a couple of bat fish near the buoy line.  Slightly disappointing dives but it was good to dive somewhere different.
Back on land, we dropped my camera off at Deep Down and then headed home, stopping at ‘Greasy Spoon’ for lunch ..we were both pretty tired, so ate and then had an afternoon snooze.
We didnt fancy venturing out in the evening so popped down to ‘Kanya’ for our usual  Green Thai curries and then lazed infront of the tv and watched  ‘Wolfman’.