Koh Tao

We left the busy island of Koh Samui after a couple of nights for the smaller and more chilled out island of Koh Tao. It's only about 21km around the island although the roads (if you can call them that) are mainly on one side. To get to the other side you need to take a taxi. Like Samui, the taxi's are utes but this time they are big 4 by 4 utes and are definitely needed.

We have been here for 3 nights so far and pretty much our time has been taken up relaxing on the beach, swimming, snorkeling, and generally just wandering around the island.......... oh and of course beach volleyball!

This is the sunset on the beach we are staying at. Not too shabby!

We hired a scooter and drove around the parts of the island that we could. It's a great way to get around. The roads that are sealed are filled with potholes so you have to always keep an eye out, not to mention in the back of our minds were the many tourists that we have seen with numerous bandages and grazes which we assume are from falling off motorbikes! As for the unsealed roads, we got about 500metres up one of them and worked out that there was no way our 50cc scooter was going to take us any further. It didn't have enough grunt to get up the hills let alone negotiate the crazy dirt tracks of roads. We saw a bit of the island though and Miranda only had to jump off the bike once due to the steep terrain. Funny!


The snorkeling here is amazing. The water is really clear and one spot we found had loads of amazing coral and fish. Carl saw a swordfish about a metre long (well maybe it was a little smaller) but it was big enough for him to move pretty dam quickly outta there!

This is us having a beer at the one of the many bars along the beach. This bar is a converted VW combi van. I know - life's hard!