Today, we had a lay in, of sorts…

8am we got up to sort stuff out, go back to the clinic, have breakfast, washing etc. All the domestic chores that we have been too busy to do recently.

Then at 11.30 we left home to meet the afternoon boat. Jen was still taking antibiotics for her ear and today was the first time it felt slightly unblocked.!! So she joined me on the boat to do some snorkelling while I joined Nathan to film him on the reef check.

We had a long 77 minute dive studying the coral, and returned to the boat to head to the next dive site.

Since everyone else was too tired to dive again (I was the only one who wanted to go in!), I joined Jen for a snorkel and we hunted for the Eagle ray, but did not find it this time…

Upon our return, we zoomed home to get changed for Tina’s birthday! We went to the bowling alley in the evening and spent the whole night drinking and bowling… it was a good turn out of about 30 people… Much fun was had.. (I shall post pics, if I can find some!)

In bed at midnight ish….

Today, Jen and I woke up to head to Deep Down Productions, to continue teaching Andy about Documentaries..

After having takeaway brekkie, Jen went to Crystal, while I taxied Andy around to various points of the island so he could take some land based shots for his doco.

After a couple of hours of sweltering heat. Andy and I went to Crystal, to catch a longtail out to Mae Haad reef. Andy needed a shot of Collector Urchins… a pretty rare sight in Koh Tao… but luckily we had some inside information, and got the required shots..

After the dive, Jen and I went back to Deep Down Productions to pick up the laptop, and returned home, stopping back at Crystal for a couple of San Miguel lites..

Takeaway pizza, and a episode of Lost was our evening entertainment…! NICE!

SD

Today we started a Marine Resource Management course.  It’s a 5 day course and this morning we covered the following:

The Ecology and Biology of Coral Reef
The origin & characteristics of coral reefs
Differences Between Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Reefs
Coral Anatomy and Biology

In the afternoon, we went to ‘Shark bay’ to do quadrant surveys on the old Biorock.  I didnt go in the water but sat on the rock for a couple of hours and waited.  Once surveys were done, we headed back to Crystal to input the data onto a global database and then headed home, stopping onthe way for a takeaway. 

I think it must be the heat as we were both feeling exhausted and ended up going to bed around 9pm