Minirolls Musings

Wreck Diver

I spent last night reading the last few chapters of my course in preparation for today. Today I’m going inside the wreck properly and training the skills needed to stay safe and manage risk. This is beyond Aimi’s qualification because its deeper and boring if your not doing the course so she’s gone off with another guide for a fun dive.

Open Water Diver

Aimi has been training these last few days with a chinese girl called Luna. Shes very enthusiastic and enjoys waving when saying hello or good bye, its very cute. Her English is incredibly good, only the occasional word pronounced wrong but really, she’s fluent. I know native born Englishmen who have a hard time using the language.

Emerald Bay Turtles

This morning started very uncomfortably. Whilst we may have conquered the mountain of food last night, we were paying for it this morning. Both of us just had a plate of fruit for breakfast, and I didn’t even finish all mine. I was still full and uncomfortably bunged up.

Liberty Wreck

This morning we were up and breakfasted, ready to go with German efficiency. Today Aimi carries on her course under the tutelage of Ricardo, the German owner of the dive resort. I’m off to the local wreck, USAT Liberty with the chubby ozzy and a local guide.

Aimi Takes The Plunge

It’s taken a lot of convincing, support and fun dives, but Aimi has decided to get her Open Water certificate in diving.

Final Dives

Our last full day on Koh Tao and we head straight for our favourite breakfast spot. A bamboo restaurant nestled between concrete 2 housing blocks with a good view, and breeze, from across the bay. Aimi thinks it’s strange, but I was happy to find peanut butter and banana on toast on the menu. Which means it’s popular enough to not be strange!

Turtle Island

Aimi must have recharged her batteries yesterday enough that she wanted to come diving today. It was much better weather and as luck would have it, we got the whole boat to ourselves!

Technically NOT Cave Diving

Today started with rain. Torrential, hard, thunderous rain. We had risen, and just as we were ready to go, it let up just enough to start walking. Its a 30 min walk from our end of the bay to where Mojo are based, but about half way it started getting heavy again and we ducked into a random restaurant for breakfast.

Critters & Caterpillars

What’s the last thing you want to find in your room after a long day out? Termites… or at least as far as I could tell, with a bit of googling, that’s what they were.

Scuba Snaps

Today we are diving with Condor again and his photographer friend Diego. It wasn’t very busy so we had the boat to ourselves and could go anywhere. Anywhere we could see TURTLES!!!!