Get up at 07:00 to be at the pier for 07:45. Its lovely walking down the sandy road to Easydive. Suns strong even at this time of day and I can feel the sunlight bouncing off the water. The dive was at Chumpon, the Rock, not the Town. And there were lots of divers, 5 or 6 boats full. We all looked like a school of seals that I have seen on the TV. Eva's boyfriend Stuart said that our mission was to see more fish then people. Looks like it could be a close thing. We descended down the anchor rope and were met by about 10 Angelfish. Wow, are they big. Diving is getting easier and the sea isn't as rough as yesterday. We dove down to the bottom at 22m and swam around Twin Rocks. And saw clown fish protecting their eggs in a nest of sea annenomy. Mike gave us so banana and we fed them. Great fun.

After the dive, when I was back on the boat, I booked my self four more dives, two tomorrow and two the day after. Well now that its official and I`m a PADI registered diver might as well get some use out of it.

Got talking to Stuart and found that he had gone to Reading University. Small world. When I was back at Easydive a butterfly landed on my face and Eva took my picture.

As I have finished my diving course, I will get kicked out of my Hut tomorrow and need to find another place to stay. I need to hire a Scooter to go looking for places. I find one for hire about three shops down from Easydiver. It cost 150B a day and is brand new with only 1.6Km on the clock. I hand over my passport and they hand over the keys. No insurance like in Chumpon, just don't have an accident or you will be in for a big bill. I pull out onto the Main Drag and head out of town. At the top of the Main Drag is a T-junction, turn left as it's the easiest option and head north.

I find a Guest House up in the hills, it was 100B a night, but only had electric from 18:00 to 21:00 and was quite a long way from the town. I go back into town and look at another lovely place was just on the edge of town for 550B or one in town with A/C and TV but was 1000B a night. Decide both are too expensive and will continue to look.

The Motorbike.

It only had 1/8 of a tank of fuel when I hired it, so I needed to find a petrol station. As I can't go any further north I head south and find one where the fuel was pumped up from a barrel, into a big transparent tube with litres marked on it. They drain the fuel from this tube into your bike. I filled it up, all 2L worth, even though I know that I could possibly use it all. Went all the way south and find the Banana Point Bar, which Eva told me about, that "was the place" to see the sunset. I had to walk up a very steep hill to get to it, as I didn't fancy riding the bike up to it. But on my way up, I did see one Thai bloke go up on a bike, though. "Nutter" I thought.

The view is wonderful and the bar had loads of fairy lights strung everywhere and the strong smell of pot. Met up with Eva, Stuart, Ralf and some other divers. They offered me a toke on their splif but I didn't partake, not my bag really. Got talking to an American called Brian who has lived in South Korea for the last seven years and enjoys coming down to Koh Tao for the diving. He was going to go diving on the same ship as me tomorrow. Might have him as my buddy. After the sun had set and I have had four Rum and Cokes, I decided it was time to go back, the mozzies had come out and I didn't want to be too drunk and try to ride back.

The Island roads are very dark! Any traffic coming in the opposite direction would completely blind me and destroy my night vision. I keep well over to the left and don't go above 30Kmh. I don't get lost or fall off a cliff or anything and get back safely.

Found that Ralf had beat me back to the hut and wanted to go to sleep at 21:30, so we did!