Koh Tao - day 89,90,91,92,93

We ended up staying on Koh Tao for nearly a week. It was great! We loved it! We went diving nearly every day, sometimes even three times a day! Pierre passed his PADI Open Water course and continued on with the Advanced Open Water course right away. Nat passed her Advanced Open Water course and then went fun diving as Pierre's buddy when he passed his Advanced course. Even though the visibility wasn't amazing, we did see an incredible amount of fish! We also saw a blue-spotted sting ray, a titan trigger fish (they will attack you if you trespass on their territory!), a lot of white eyed moray eels, some barracudas, a goat fish, tons of anemonefish (nemos), some crabs and lots of parrotfish, soldierfish, angelfish, sergeant majorfish, sea urchins, etc. We even did some night dives during which we saw bioluminescent plancton! Apart from the diving, we loved Koh Tao because it is a tiny island. It isn't as developed as any of the other islands, there is only one road for cars and a tiny path for mopeds, and the shopkeepers aren't trying to pull you into their shops all day long. There was one cabaret type bar for which there were lots of "he-shes" handing out flyers. They look like beautiful women, dress very sexy (they wear lingerie or sexy dresses) and you can't tell they are men until they start talking to you! Anyway, Koh Tao was also great because we were there in the low season, meaning that it wasn't busy at all and we stayed in a very nice resort for a very low price! We ate in a different restaurant every day! One day we walked up and down the hills to the north-western point of the island where we had a beautiful view over Koh Nang Yuan (three tiny islands off the coast). They are building a very nice resort over there, said to be opening in 6 days... although we highly doubt that since the construction works didn't look anywhere near being finished! To anyone thinking about diving in Thailand, definitely go to Koh Tao! It's the cheapest place to pass your PADI and the island is great!

Weather: we were lucky cause it was sunny nearly every day! only the last day it was very cloudy, but we didn't have a single drop of rain (although we were told it would rain every day before we got there!)