ko tao diving

On Monday 17th I changed islands, now I am at Ko Tao. Its about 2 h with high speed boat north of Ko Samui, a much smaller island without airport and a divers paradise. There are nearly 40 dive schools here and people all over the world come here for diving. Divers are cool and sometimes strange people. I stay in a funny bungalow resort, they have small bungalows here in a cozy bay which are connected with wooden pathways on stilts. They also go upwards and it can be slippery when its raining. Of course they are not secured and pretty narrow, so i have to take care, especially when its dark. Good that I brought my headlight with me.
My bungalow has a private balcony with a hammock and a nice view over the bay, especially the sunset here its great.



Inhabitant Nr. 3 of my bungalow is Hugo, a small gecko (20cm). He takes care of the outside walls and is active at night.


Did my first dive at a rock 200m around the corner. When we dived we saw a big nylon fishing net under water. First we thought that its a lost one and tried to collect it but then we found out that its active and connected to a fishing boat. My guide decided to go up and talk to the fishermen. He asked the Thai fishermen if they want to kill us? They were just smiling at us, I don´t know if they don´t understood us or not. I learned from that, that I have to buy a knife and keep it with me on dives, these nets can be very dangerous and if you stuck in there, its nearly impossible to get out.
On Wednesday was my big diving day, started with my first deep dive (30m). At that level many things are changing, for example you need more air and have problems with simple things. I did a simple pointing test with my instructor, which was ok but i failed with an easy calculation like (32+26):2
After that we ascended and dived round a rock. There I saw my first shark, a small bullshark (1,5m) He was swimming very elegant; its a shame that many of them are caught only because of their fins. My girl stayed at the boat and got seasick. Second dive was also a very nice one, we swam through some tunnels and caves.
Got back at 13h, went eating something at the beachbar and then I relaxed a "little" bit in the hammock. Slept roundabout 4hours!!, this diving costs really much power especially when you go deep and see many interesting things. At night we went with some people from the diveschool to a nice restaurant with thai BBQ and some relaxing music.
Thursday I did 2 easy dives in the morning, learned the theory and the important things to consider for deep diving and got my certificate. Stayed at home, it was raining short but very intensive. Good for updating my blog and writing some emails. The heaviest rain month here is November, then the roads are completley flooded, you even cannot go with bike, too high water.
Time to go to bed now.. tomorrow I will also do some diving...