Kho Tao continued...

Sorry for keeping quiet, we are as bit disconnected here on this island, especially on the beach where we are staying. Ahhhhh the beach... you have all seen the movie right? Well ours is much better! We have a cute wooden bungalow with banana leaf roof landed on a rock and overlooking the cutest little bay we have seen. Move your eyes a bit up around 6 and you see a beautiful sunset across the sea. There are two ways to reach it, after a 30 Min hike through the forest or a 10 min. ride in a long tail boat. Apart from the few other bungalows the center point of the beach is THE Banana Rock, the coolest place around (well its not hard there are three other places...), made of wood and run by a curly guy who barely speaks english and is much more concerned about smoking grass and fishing the whole day than whether you want to pay or not ;) Its magic, in the morning some of us wake up around 7.30 AM (unbelievable I know!) by the sound of waves splashing against the sand and go for a swim. The day we spent sunbathing, snorkeling with the most beautiful fish and sunbathing again, occasionally having the best coconut shake at the Banana Rock. We did explore a bit of the island though but hurried back to our little beach. Well that was life until the serious stuff started... Our diving course! Now we both have to get up early in the morning come to town (by boat of course) and spend long ours with our cool-sea wolf instructor Bob learning all those things you never really need in life, like how to catch your regulator (the thing you breathe with) if your buddy accidentally knocks it out of your mouth... and then you dive! Today we did it for the first time, its really amazing to see all these fish swimming right in front of your mask :) Peter is already looking for the whale shark of course :))

Well that's it for now, we are trying to put some pictures on as well, you will know if it worked.
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