Thailand - Near Death number 1 and Ko Toa Island

Hey well after the weather shat itself in koh phangon, stress levels were pretty high as we went through every possible way to get back tot he mainland and avoid the typhoon.  We sat on the internet for an hour in the travel agent before he said there was a bigger better boat going in 30mins, we missed our first boat as it was too rough and the boat was ssmall.

So we loaded on this about 100ft boat, with about 200 people and ventured out into the 4m swells in the gulf, alot of people were being sick etc, but you could pick the kiwis out who were laughign the hole way, quinn even fell asleep.  We were abit slow getting to ko toa but we finally got here, we walked upt he street got a good feed in us as we werer a little bit nauseas and found a place to stay, two rooms for $25 nz a night, ours doesnt have aircon but is all right, just two matresses on the floor with a toilet and cold shower, battling with the fact that when you wipe your ass you you have to put hte paper in a bin, quinn has all ready filled the bin up, due to the development of the shits.

Thsi mornign i got up and went for a run as i realised i am racing a triathlon in 13days in wanaka, so thoguht a bit of a run will help, looking at the race as a training run now as i wont be competitive at all.  We had the most amazing pancake breakfast for 1.50nz, and then got some scooters and soome snorklellling gear and went on a mission to find some coral, we didnt have to swim far off the beach before we were over coral and there were heaps of tropical fish around , some amazing coloured fish etc, its a shame that every now and then you swim over a water bottle in the water or a wrapper of some description.  We hoped on the scooters and missioned to another beach but the remoteness of the raods and beach got us with me and quinn falling off, luckly i was on the back so as we fell off i was able to hold the handle and keep the bike off the ground preventing any scratches on it that would cost us a bit of money.

we resorted to a beach front restaurant for lunch as quinn checked his cuts and him and marcus went out for a nother swim, this time not as good, richie and i stayed at the table watched our gear and watched the exposed breasts that were infront of us.

Tonight is going to consist of a few changs and then down in to the main town, the hole village here would be the about the size of waimea college probably so its pretty easy to walk around.  Im starting to get sick of people being in my face everywhere trying to sell me stuff, the boys have resorted to speaking maori everywhere to get them to piss off, they cant understand that.  We recitied the hole haka the other day to each other before a guy buggered off.

Bangkok on tuesday, so if you want anything put your order in, we boating from here to chumporn and then on bus to bangkok about 13 hours travelling, going to be real fun, hopefully this bus is better aircon then the other earlier in the trip..Will update about our snorkelling trip tomorrow, thinking of heading out to an island to do some snorkelling on a few reefs, bit more expensive here thought, so probabaly wont get to go actual diving....my jandals of a year have finally worn through so need to buy some new ones before walking around bangkok.

catch ya