It’s our day off today and we both woke around 10.30.  I was shocked  that we managed to lie in for that amount of time, especially Simon.

After catching up with work & emails I went to collect our washing.  The Thai lady in the office looked at me blankly and said  ‘I have no washing for you’.  it had mysteriously disappeared or someone else had taken it.  We checked the washing line, she called her boss who clearly remembered me bringing it in  ..but it was no where to be seen.   I was told to come back later and ‘Sorry, Im Thai’   ..whats that got to do with it I thought.  Simon wasnt pleased at all as it was most of his clothes.

 After that saga, we popped down to Crystal to see if there were any Open Water courses starting that we could team teach on, unfortunately there were only German & Dutch starting  ..so we headed off to grab something to eat at Cappucino’s Coffee house.  I had museli, banana and yoghurt and Si had 2 poached eggs on toast.

It seems blisteringly hot today so we decided to go for a swim at Crystal Regal pool   ..this is where our friend Scott stayed.  The pool was pretty quiet apart from a bunch of open water students doing their confined session at one end of the pool.  So Si and I mucked around in the rest.  After a few hours of handstands, being half drowned and races we dried off and came home, only stopping for toothpaste, crisps and water.

Tonight we’re off to ‘Vibe’ beach bar with a crowd of people and then going onto ‘The Castle’ club where one of the instructors are Dj’ing  …should be interesting.

Jen’s 1st day using her housing and she captures a Juvenile Eagle Ray…

(Very rare on Koh Tao!)

With poor visibility, its not the greatest footage… but nice..

Jumped on the bike and headed into Sairee, what I forgot to mention yesterday that we found a Ikelite housing for Si’s little Sony Hanycam and I’ve decided to buy it as it’s half the price it should be, as it was ordered in by mistake.   So, now I will be filming underwater.  YAY!!!   In comparison to Si’s, it’s tiny!

Before the boat arrived the beat up truck that carry’s Scuba Tanks, got stuck in the sand, so Simon and some DMT etc… helped get it moving… it took a while and looked like hard work!

I’d earlier tested my new camera housing in the pool to make sure it didnt leak  .. then Si mounted the camera inside.

On the boat I was very excited to get in the water and do some filming.  Si didnt take his monster camera out as at the last minute we were asked to lead some fun divers.

Our first dive was at ‘Twins’  usually lovely and clear but because of all the coral spawning, it was 5 meters vis tops and very disappointing.  I didint really film anything apart from a couple of Angel fish and clown fish.

The Second dive was at ‘Japanese Gardens’  Looking from the boat the vis looked good so I was raring to go.  In the water, the vis deteriorated the further we went so we just circled a small area and lo and behold an Eagle ray gracefully swam past.  Then from out of nowhere all the trainee videographers appeared and were chasing it so they could get a good shot, not really the thing to do but hey, they’re still learning, says she, who’s only filmed a couple of times 🙂  I did managed to get a few seconds of footage though in all the chaos, which I was pretty amazed at as I couldn’t see properly as my mask kept on fogging up.

Back on land we washed our kit, reviewed my footage and then dropped my new housing back at ‘Deep Down Productions’.  Back at the Crystal bar we watched Tina’s open water video for a bit and then shot off to Sairee to meet with Alan & Heidi (our old landlords) for dinner.

After eating and drinking too much we arrived back at home around 9.30pm  ..I really must stop eating when I’m full but the food is just so good…!

Jen
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