Namrin with her friends-Koh Tao

Hello, everyone.

Due to a business call, Aom, my Thai friend decided to go back to Bangkok 1 day earlier. So you see, taking a long holiday leave in Thailand is not easy somehow. Sigh!

Koh Tao??? The first time when you think about Koh Tao, you think about turtle. The second time when you think about Koh Tao, you talk about SCUBA diving. The third time when you think about Koh Tao, you talk about snorkelling. The forth time when you think about Koh Tao, you think and talk about turtle, SCUBA diving and snorkelling. hahaha!

Those are what Koh Tao is all about. It's not your islands if you look for sandy beach. It's rocky beach here. But down under it has very nice underwater plants and animals that you will love to see. Further but around Koh Tao, there are many famous diving spots for SCUBA divers where you have a chance to see whale sharks or blue sharks.

Unfortunately, it's now very difficult to find turtles here. Koh Tao literally means Turtle Islands because this islands is famous for the place that sea turtles came to hatch their eggs. But now, I'm not sure whether it has become only a tale yet. Never heard of people talking about it for a loooong time.

For my own unlucky bit, I lost some photos because of sun exposure. The ones that can be used are in little blue tone. I used the half auto/half manual camera with waterproof case but I didn't know how to remove the film from the camera's case LOL. The photos underwater I posted are only parts of a film. If I could change a film, we would have more photos. We found a very big interesting fish down there too. But I don't know the name and didn't have a film left to take its photo :-(

Our schedule of that day is simple:

Got up in early morning. Picked up by a van that took us to a pier in Koh Samui

Light breakfast and got on the ferry. This boat is better and bigger than yesterday's one. It has air-con and hundreds of seats. You can tell this is a little longer distance.

Departed to Koh Tao
Arrived at 1st snorkelling spot: Go snorkelling

Lunch on board
Due to unpredictable weather (from past 3 days), we didn't go to Koh Nangyuan for our own safety:-(

Traveled to 2nd snorkellin spot: Go snorkelling
Then, headed back to Koh Samui

Tomorrow is the last day of my Gulf of Thailand trip

Namrin
PS. Actually it didn't rain that day. It's a shame we didn't stop by Koh Nangyuan. Therefore I have to go there again next year. lol

28 July 2008
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