OK - we've landed in Koh Tao and are staying at Ban's Diving Resort - this is supposedly one of the biggest and best in Koh Tao. We've signed up to do our Advanced Open Water course - this consists of 5 dives, 2 of which must be deep diving (to 30m) and navigation (kind of like underwater orienteering). We will probably do additional dives in photography and possibly naturalism (not naturism!!). We are not sure of the 5th - they are trying to persuade us to do a night dive as our instructor says there's loads of planckton and there will probably be a whale shark or 2 about...

Weather is hot hot hot, the girls are currently sunning themselves whilst the boys are hiding in air-conned rooms...we're so lame (as Mike would say...)

We're going to be here for at least 4 days (Jen's got a bit of a cold and you can't dive with a cold so we're starting our course on Sunday not Saturday) and after the course we're going to do a day of fun diving (Tuesday). The plan after that is a bit vague but I think as it's only about 20 quid to fly to Phuket we think that's where we'll end up next and we'll dive at Phi-Phi (where 'The Beach' with Leo DiCap was filmed...) and probably stay somewhere nice (hey it's nearly Valentine's day and I'm still a romantic at heart...) before flying up to Chiang Mai. In CM we're going to do a cookery course so we can poison you all upon our return.

Not alot else to report...internet access is pricey here so we're only going to post something else as and when it happens/on Monday.