I was diving at shark island but no sharks there, the name comes from the form of the island. Its too shallow there and has not enough fish. At night my dive school made some BBQ at the beach. This was nice and only disturbed by a small dogfight. These dogs here are normally friendly and calm, I thought the fighting started because we had some food there.
When I look around my bay i noticed that here we have no christmas trees. Also I don´t hear christmas music and the weather fits also not to the christmas I know, so this year everything is different and this year no christmas for me.....
Thailand has a different counting of the years, for them this year is 2550. They started their counting with a king. So if you see something in the supermarket with an expiration date of 52 or 2552 dont be surprised ;-) Thai people are very superstitous, some things bring luck, some bad luck. They have many shrines in their streets where they sacrifice some food and drinks. I am quite sure that most of that will be eaten by animals. And if you walk with someone you sometimes have to cross roads because ahead is for example a corner of a house which brings bad luck.
Today did some snorkling at the neighbouring freedom beach, a very nice place which has a reggae bar. I am lucky not to have a bungalow there, reggae is not my favorite music and to hear that the whole day long.... I prefer my quiet balcony, where you hear some crickets and some birds. This is very different than Ko Samui, there I heard no animals, only the loud rotating fan.
Tomorrow I will dive again at the place where I saw my first shark, hopefully he or another one will be there again. I am also thinking of doing some special diving, probably night diving or early morning diving. At that time the underwater life is different. Fishes are also sleeping and you can see night-active fishes at that time. For night diving i have to get over some natural fears of mine because I have to jump into dark water and see only what is lighted with my underwater flashlight. In two days will be full moon, so it will be brigher than normal, probably I will do the night dive then. The water is quite nice today, look here at the green water.
The two bungalows at the right are under construction, of course this place is not secured with a fence or similar things.
