We have spent 8 days on the beautiful, small island of Ko Tao and are now certified Advanced scuba divers! We finally arrived after a 40 hour journey from the north of Thailand to the south and began the Open Water diving course a few days later.
Our instructor, Andy, was great, very passionate and approachable and our small group with two other girls were lovely. On our second day of the course we went into the pool to practice using the scuba equipment and afterwards felt really excited about our first open water dive the next day. And we weren’t wrong - it was a m a z i n g! We went to the Mango Bay and Twins dive sites and saw moral eels, stingrays, trigger fish, hermit crabs…the list is endless! The 45 minute dives flew by and before we knew it we were excitedly comparing what we’d seen on deck.
We loved it so much that we signed up for the Advanced course (although it was another £150 and a thick manual to carry!) and started the next day. We could choose 5 specialist dives to do so we opted to focus on navigation, buoyancy, multilevel diving, photography and a night dive! Of the 200+ photos we took, there are a few great ones - as you can see - our favourite is the one of the trigger fish up close - they can attack if you approach them but Helen risked it and it’s great! The night dive was awesome but really scary at first as you can barely see 1 metre in front of you when the torches are off. We also picked up a few injuries by bumping into rocks in the dark! We have 4 days left in Thailand before we fly to Malaysia so we’re heading to Ko Pha Ngan, there’s no full moon party at the moment so we’ll manage to avoid the day-glo paint and Thai whiskey buckets, and just chill out instead!
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