Travel makes you smarter.
It’s a whole nother world down here Koh Tao means “Turtle Island” but we haven’t seen any turtles in the three days we’ve been here. Zoe did see a large school of fish on the pier getting off the boat when we got to this diver’s paradise on Thursday: “Honey, look at the fish!” Steve: [...]
Our guard dog We left Bangkok on the 3rd, Sunday, on a 7:00 pm bus and were waiting for our second bus at 5:30 in the morning over coffee. Once we got to Pha Ngan island, pronounced, “pahn gahn”, we got a free ride to the Haad Gruad resort priced at 300 baht per night. [...]
Dive instructor Tuan After our initial dive four days ago, we liked it so much we decided to sign up for certification from SSI. Apparently, Vietnam is a cheap place to get certified which allows us to dive anywhere in the world without a guide. It’s a fairly expensive hobby so we probably won’t be [...]
Take a big step We signed up with Angel Dive shop for a Discover Scuba Diving course which covers the basics of shallow diving and two fun dives. The price is $55 each for the day which includes: boat ride out to our dive spot, one-on-one training from a certified Instructor, two dives, all equipment [...]
