Moving on!
Posted by Sarah O'Neill , Friday, 1 October 2010 00:17
Well, I haven’t blogged since Tuesday, and I am missing it! Although not an awful lot to tell, as we have settled into lazy beach and pool days, when the weather is behaving itself!
Since Ben doesn’t seem inclined to blog again just yet, I can tell you that when he was on his Deep dive, he saw . . . a green turtle!!! I am sooooo jealous! Then, to cap it all, he went to a different dive spot the next day and saw another one! Well, I am not impressed! The photos and videos of it are Amazing! I will try to put up a video, but a photo will have to do if I can’t!
I am writing this blog offline in a word document, and hoping to paste it into the blog when I can get online again. We have finished diving at Scuba Junction, so can’t use their internet anymore, and the new place we’re staying at charges, so we have bought some internet time, but trying to be canny by writing it now, and loading it up later. I hope it works, or this will have been a wasted time!
So, we finally moved out of our wooden shack, and I am gutted as I meant to take a photo, and forgot. We moved just down the road, to another bungalow, still wooden, but with a concrete bathroom. It has a flushing toilet, the sink is plumbed in properly and the pillows are lush! It also has a pool. It is only 3 pounds more a night, and I think all of that is totally worth it! The shower is still cold, and I think we have both become more acclimatised, so the shower is no longer refreshing, it’s just cold! But you can’t have everything! I must tell you that since we moved into our slightly more upmarket place I have seen more wildlife in it, than in the previous bungalow. Nic Boyns, I thought of you last night, when a GIGANTIC spider ran across the floor! I ran out and yelled at Ben to get it, it was right by his flipflops on the floor, and it was HUGE, and VERY fast! He was looking around for something to catch it in, he is always so humane, but I was adamant that it wouldn’t be caught, it was too risky, and needed to be killed! He whacked it once, but it ran, fast and went in his bag. He whacked it again, and it was still alive, and was on his hat in the bag, one final whack and it was dead, splatted all against Ben’s hat! Then I was closing the window and a lizard crawled up the side (inside!), never found it, so had to sleep with knowledge it was in here somewhere!
The last few days have been spent on the beach, or by the pool now, there are even sun loungers, which is fab! Unfortunately the weather seems to have taken a turn, and this last week it has rained every day. Mostly in the afternoons, and very heavy for a spell! The sun usually comes out again, but it’s not nearly as hot as it was here our first week. I am a bit disappointed, as this was the week I was going to sort out my tan! It’s getting there, but all the diving has got in the way a bit, and I still have these lovely tan lines where my wetsuit was on my legs! While I am writing this, it has just stopped raining, and we are sat on the porch of our little bungalow, waiting to go out again!
We are now planning our next move, which is to an island called Koh Lanta, in the province of Krabi, where Ben has found us a rather nice looking hotel, for a very reasonable fee! But before we can enjoy a bit of luxury, we have to get there! So, tomorrow at 9pm we get on a night boat (Ben has seen people’s pictures of the ‘night boat’ and was hoping we wouldn’t need to use one, so if he was worried, goodness knows what I’m going to think!), then at 6am we get on a bus, and then at 9am we get on another boat over to the island and get there about 11am. We are going to ring and make reservations at the hotel today, as they will pick us up from the pier and take us to the hotel.
We aren’t sure what the internet situation is there, but will hopefully be online a bit more! Would love to skype with family and friends again soon, it’s been too long! We are off now to book our journey to Koh Lanta, and then hopefully top up the tan a bit before dinner!
Sarah x
Since Ben doesn’t seem inclined to blog again just yet, I can tell you that when he was on his Deep dive, he saw . . . a green turtle!!! I am sooooo jealous! Then, to cap it all, he went to a different dive spot the next day and saw another one! Well, I am not impressed! The photos and videos of it are Amazing! I will try to put up a video, but a photo will have to do if I can’t!
I am writing this blog offline in a word document, and hoping to paste it into the blog when I can get online again. We have finished diving at Scuba Junction, so can’t use their internet anymore, and the new place we’re staying at charges, so we have bought some internet time, but trying to be canny by writing it now, and loading it up later. I hope it works, or this will have been a wasted time!
So, we finally moved out of our wooden shack, and I am gutted as I meant to take a photo, and forgot. We moved just down the road, to another bungalow, still wooden, but with a concrete bathroom. It has a flushing toilet, the sink is plumbed in properly and the pillows are lush! It also has a pool. It is only 3 pounds more a night, and I think all of that is totally worth it! The shower is still cold, and I think we have both become more acclimatised, so the shower is no longer refreshing, it’s just cold! But you can’t have everything! I must tell you that since we moved into our slightly more upmarket place I have seen more wildlife in it, than in the previous bungalow. Nic Boyns, I thought of you last night, when a GIGANTIC spider ran across the floor! I ran out and yelled at Ben to get it, it was right by his flipflops on the floor, and it was HUGE, and VERY fast! He was looking around for something to catch it in, he is always so humane, but I was adamant that it wouldn’t be caught, it was too risky, and needed to be killed! He whacked it once, but it ran, fast and went in his bag. He whacked it again, and it was still alive, and was on his hat in the bag, one final whack and it was dead, splatted all against Ben’s hat! Then I was closing the window and a lizard crawled up the side (inside!), never found it, so had to sleep with knowledge it was in here somewhere!
The last few days have been spent on the beach, or by the pool now, there are even sun loungers, which is fab! Unfortunately the weather seems to have taken a turn, and this last week it has rained every day. Mostly in the afternoons, and very heavy for a spell! The sun usually comes out again, but it’s not nearly as hot as it was here our first week. I am a bit disappointed, as this was the week I was going to sort out my tan! It’s getting there, but all the diving has got in the way a bit, and I still have these lovely tan lines where my wetsuit was on my legs! While I am writing this, it has just stopped raining, and we are sat on the porch of our little bungalow, waiting to go out again!
We are now planning our next move, which is to an island called Koh Lanta, in the province of Krabi, where Ben has found us a rather nice looking hotel, for a very reasonable fee! But before we can enjoy a bit of luxury, we have to get there! So, tomorrow at 9pm we get on a night boat (Ben has seen people’s pictures of the ‘night boat’ and was hoping we wouldn’t need to use one, so if he was worried, goodness knows what I’m going to think!), then at 6am we get on a bus, and then at 9am we get on another boat over to the island and get there about 11am. We are going to ring and make reservations at the hotel today, as they will pick us up from the pier and take us to the hotel.
We aren’t sure what the internet situation is there, but will hopefully be online a bit more! Would love to skype with family and friends again soon, it’s been too long! We are off now to book our journey to Koh Lanta, and then hopefully top up the tan a bit before dinner!
Sarah x
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