The MP3 player seems to be mended again...this was just one part of why yesterday was such a good day. Firstly we arrived at our accomodation after a 2 hour boat trip - the air-con even worked on the ferry so that was a bonus. Our guesthouse is lovely, they're really friendly and the room is cheap - 600B (9 quid) a night. We're on the beach and less than 1 Km from the main town. Koh Lanata is great, really laid back, quite underdeveloped and a bit similar to Koh Chang - except we didn't like it there...ant infestation in our toilet is anyone remembers back to January, we're struggling to...

We also found an English 'pub' last night that serves, homemade quiche (yes I know that's not strictly very English), fish and chips and other Western goodies. He even does a Ploughman's - his next shipment of Branston arrives today so we'll be back tonight or tomorrow no doubt - Jen has booked us in for Sunday lunch on, Sunday (duh!) We watched Man U Vs Arsenal, as live, and as we didn't know the score it made for a great evening. We also managed to book some diving for today - more of that in a bit. The sites we really wanted to go to (Hin Deang and Hin Mueng) are being dived on Sunday so we'll have to stay until then. We've booked our tickets for the ferry on Monday so we'll arrive in Phi Phi for about 10am.

Today was diving again and we had a blast. You'll all be pleased to know that our new dive computer worked well and we got a lovely readout at the end telling us time in water (54 mins for dive 2), max depth (28m) and water temperature (31 degrees!!!!!) - NICE!
The first dive was OK - but the second was something else...apart from seeing the usual marine life close up, schools of small fish and some larger ones (sorry still don't know most of the names) we also saw a massive Moray Eel and an Octupus that even waved at us before swimming off. The highlight of the second dive was the opportunity to swim into a cave where you could then swim up into a cavern with an air pocket. There were hundreds of Stalagtites (mites go up tites come down...) and we got the opportunity to take our masks off and have a good 5 mins looking round - it was kind of eerie but great fun.

We have booked in to do some more dives on Sunday - Hin Muang and Hin Deang are two of the best sites in the world and we are hoping to catch a glimpse of our first shark (leopard and whale) or one of the many 5 metre Manta Rays.

We have had an email today from Helen and Rich (Hi both - glad you're enjoying Suk 11) letting us know they'll be on Phi Phi from Sunday so hopefully we can hook up on Monday for some beers and dive on Tuesday/Wednesday I guess. We haven't really got much of a clue what we're doing after Phi-Phi - probably Phuket (Jen wants to find a matching elephant carving for the one we bought 2 years ago) followed by the trip back to Bangkok in readiness for the arrival of my brother - 4th May. We have got to get Visa extensions somehow so we should hit BKK on or around the 2nd.