The shear amount of daylight wakes me up at 7:00; it's too bright to stay in bed by then. I look through my spending for the past week. Yes I've been here for a week now! I have only spent 5000B or £75. This is about half of my £20 a day budget, not bad! I will have lots of money left by the end of my holiday for getting gifts etc. Or I could splash out and stay in a posh hotel with Air/con, when I spend my last week in Bangkok.

I study the inside of the hut. All the electric wiring has been platted. The red green and yellow wires make quite a nice effect as they trail up the wall from the switch to the roof light. Check mozzy bites, I have got quite a lot on my feet, so must have gotten them when I was in bed asleep, as I had shoes and socks on the beach last night. Look around the hut and find lots of gaps between the wooden planks that make up the walls. What is the point of having mozzy netting on the windows when the little buggers can literally fly through the walls?

Do my ablutions and pack up my stuff and goto the big house. The manager then shows me to the hut next to my old one. This is the one I`m to share. No sign of the other guy so I dump my rucksack on the other empty bed and head off to Easydive with the key to the hut.

Bjorn and I did some more class work that consisted of watching another video and then did the final test. I got 92% and Bjorn get 91%, which was a comfortable pass as anything of 75% is ok. He did do his test in Danish so there was very little chance of us cheating. Mike went through the questions and showed us what we got wrong. Now, all we have to do is four more dives, two this afternoon and two, tomorrow morning and we are now both certified divers!

Then it was lunchtime. Bjorn showed me a place he had eaten in last night. It was full of other divers and I could understand why, every dish was only 50B and included rice and was very good but the best bit was the coconut milkshake made with fresh coconut milk, and only 10B.

That afternoon we went out in a boat to do our first proper dive, in deep water. As part of the Diving test I had to prove that I could swim 2 ½ times around the boat. The idea of this was very scary. I jumped in, with BCD on to give me some buoyancy, and started to swim around the boat. When I got about half way and near the back of the boat, a big wave washed me under the hull and for a moment I was completely submerged and thought that I might hit my head on the bottom of the hull and be knocked out. I didn't though, but once I got back on the surface I was very frightened indeed and was almost panicking. Mike the instructor saw that I was in trouble and told me to get to the ladder and climb back on board. I did this with great relief. Not something I want to experience again.

Once I had calmed down we put on all the equipment and Kicked Off the boat into the sea. Bjorn went first and then it was my turn. Boy, was I scared but I did it. The waves were still very big and the current pulled us away from the boat. Three big waves hit me in a row and filled my snorkel with water, Panic! I was able to calm down, clear my snorkel of water and carry on swimming back towards the boat. I was starting to get the hang of this.

Bjorn and me in our divings suits.

All three of us found that we couldn't fight the current so Mike said we should start our First ever dive here! And down we went and what a different world it was! All is calm and peaceful. The bottom was only about 10m down but my mask started to fill with water, I stayed calm and cleared it. Bjorn had more trouble with his mask but as the water pressure got higher we found that the masks fitted better. Our ears hurt with the change in pressure and we had to go back up a meter or so, blow our noses and then continue down again. Finally we made it! And we started to explore the seabed. The fish were so use to divers that they didn't even try and swim away, unless you tried to touch one. Saw a blue spotted Ray and lots of sea urchins and fish of every colour, blue, green and my favourite a turquoise one with an orange head.

We practised cleaning our masks, which I found easy, wow, something that was easy! We were able to swim back to the boat while we were under the water and come up to change our air bottles. The boat them moved to a calmer part of the sea to do our next dive, as everyone had problems with the big waves and strong currents.

This time I jumped in with very little trepidation. Once on the bottom, neither of us had problems with our masks leaking or ears hearting. We practiced removing our weight belts and BCDs and putting them back on. I was OK with both of these manoeuvres but Bjorn had problems with his BCD. Well they do try and float. The dive went very well, felt more relaxed and saw loads of fish, even more then the first dive. They must have come here to get away from the big waves, just like us. When we finished this dive it was time to pack up and go home.

When I got back to the Hut I found that my new roommate was back. He is another diver, no surprise there, is a fat German veggie, called Ralf.

Loads of fireworks go off but by the time we get outside to see what is going on they have stopped. Ralf says that he goes to bed at 8:30 and not to disturb him. I go for a walk along the beach and watch the fishing boats with their bright lights to attract the fish on. My sister's touch comes in very handy and the lights from the Hotels give only patchy coverage of the beach. And walking over the rocks could have been tricky without it. I try and lie down to see any shooting starts but the sky is a bit misty and the mozzies come out and start bighting me so I soon give up. Just go back into the Hut and go to sleep.