Still in Koh Tao

We find ourselves being seduced by Koh Tao. We have been here for two weeks. Life here is very easy and beautiful. There are just enough bars and restaurants to give some variety to the night, and so many beautiful surroundings for the day, mainly, the beach and sea. The weather is getting hotter, we read that we are in the midst of a ten year record cold spell.

We spect 11 nights at Chalok Baan Kao beach. It was very laid back and friendly with lots of ocean view restaurants with cushy pillows overlooking the sea, and not too many people. We had our favorite coffee shope which served italian cappucinos and croissants. We whiles away the time snorkeling and laying on the beach, and the nights trying all the very low key restaurants and bars. We met many people on the beach, and became good friend with 4 Norwegians who you will see in many of our photos. It was fun to hang with them as they had a comedy routine for every occasion. Lana and Fredrick both got tattoos from the operator of the Rasta Bar, who uses traditional bamboo tattoo methods. Chad considered becoming a tattoo artist but I fear thathe would practice on himself, or worst, me. We figured that he could post an ad on craigslist for free tattoos for practice, no guarantees given.

Chad and Perry went on a fishing trip and saw a whale fish and also caught the smallest fish ever. We have a video of the whale fish, the internet connection here is too slow, so i will try to post it later.

We went on two snorkelling trips around the island and saw amazing coral and fish. We found a secluded beach called Freedom beach with lost of shade, good sand, and amazing snorkelling, and spent a lot time hanging out there.

We spent two nights at Ao Leuk bay, and it rained and thundered the whole time. The area was very quiet, there was only 3 bungalow operations with 3 restaurants and about 12 cabins. It was also windy as the bay faced out to the ocean and the waves were huge. There was good snorkelling there the first day, but the weather was too bad to get in any more time.

We are now just down the beach from the main pier, and we will stay here one more night before heading off to Kho Sak national rainforest. It will be HOT HOT HOT in the jungle, I am not used to this heat!

Wish us a wave free boat ride off the island! we will load up on dramamine and spend tomorrow on taxi, boat and bus to the interior of thailand.

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