Backpacking

Hi all, apologies for the lull and lack of info recently, I went to meet claire and liz at the pier the other day and we decided since none of us wanted to party we'd head for a quieter part of the island, the beautiful north east.
We had an adventurous ride up there through jungle covered hills with lots of steep dirt roads, at one stage our driver stopped to car to get a plant from the national park we were driving through, and he didn't put the brake on properly so we started inching our way forward, but it was all ok in the end, just a little nerve-wracking. The palce we were going to didn't have hot water for the price we'd been given and claire and liz really wanted hot water, so we had a saunter down hte beach and looked at a few places and eventually found this awesome place, 500B a night lovely interior and hot water anyway we had a good couple of days and have pretty much sorted our trip back to bangkok.
Sawasdee, Mike

Hey all, i was at the beach and decided it might be ok for skimboarding so eventually after lazing about i went to go and look to either buy or make one, well to cut a loooong story short, i found a boatbuilder named paul who works with plywood and fiberglass and will see about making one today a 2pm. missing you guys,
Mike

Ok so I arrived in Koh Phangan yesterday afternoon and spent about three hours walking around with my backpack ect. trying to find accomadation for myself and 8 girls, the four girls who were on my tour went on to Koh Samui to pick up their 4 friends then they are coming back to Koh Phangan, in the end i gave up and fopund some really ratty place that i'll stay in until they get here, and in the mean time I'll keep my eyes and ears open for good+cheap places to stay.

It's actually kinda nice here a bity of a mix f the other two Islands, not as scummy as Koh Samui and not as quite as Koh Tao.

It's weird with a bit more infastucture and singae this place would be soooo much better.

Ok more photos coming soon (I forgot to bring my CD with me to the internet)

BTW there are still board shorts and towels and stuff at my place that people have left behind, if you don't pick it up sue might go crazy and cut it into little pieces and then feed it to you. (she might not aswell but i'd stay on her good side if i were you)

Take Care all

So today the tour leaves Koh Tao for Bangkok, arriving at 7 the next morning. There were lots of Goodbyes, Michael and Miela are off to Koh Phangan, The brittish girls are staying o in Koh tao and everyone else is catching the train, oh almost forgot, I'm won't be catching the train, i'm staying here In Koh Tao, I might then take a ferry to Koh Phangan and see that Island. I didn't want to spend the rest of my thailand leauge in Bangkok seeing as i've done everything i want to do there bar some shopping and it's noisy and ugly, so I was planning to get out of bangkok anyway and this way i've only gotta pay for one train ride not two and it's less than NZ$20 for an overnight train ticket. So i'm in the deep-end at the moment, everything is up to me which is a bit scary after all the baby-sitting we got from yao and intrepid.

Ok i'm about to upload more photos, i'll probably only upload the photos I really like at the moment, to get to them I'm not sure of the best way, but I found if you click on the link under the photo in the main page, then click on The Thailand link and then find one of my photos it can take you to my profile and from there you can see my photos only, i'm sure there is a better way but that works.

Missing you all, and GO the AB's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi guys, we caught two ferries to Koh Tao today, the first to Koh Phanang and then another to Koh tao. Koh Tao is supposed to be the second best diving spot in the world so we'll see I might try my hand at scuba depending on price and my comfort level doing it. In SA I tried a dving with air coming from a compressor, through as hose and couldn't do it, maybe this time it'll be different, I think i can try it for free at our hotel.

Koh Tao is the smallest of the main Islands on the east coast of Thailand's peninsula, it is beautiful covered in vibnrant green trees and has stark grinte boulders protuding into the sea, the sand is a stunning white and the water is hot, it's just lovely. our Resort is stunning, right on the beach with a horizon pool and wooden everything only problem is our rooms are up a bit of a hill, we are staying on the second most populous beach on the island (I think) and we are about 2km from the main town, There are Diving tours everywhere, it's quite funny really. anyway I'll stop blabbering and work on getting some photos up.

Mike