Miranda the Scuba Diver!

On the day before we left Koh Tao (a diving mecca and now I know why), I decided to do a 'Discover Scuba Diving' course for 2000Baht - about $80 NZD. Why haven't I ever done this before! I absolutely loved it!

It was only a half day course, which included a brief instruction on some basic skills, then a dive to about 6 meters. Our instructor, a thai guy named 'Off', was great and I found everything really easy - so all those years of underwater hockey paid off! After the short dive we got back on the boat, and sailed off to another spot where the other divers who were doing an Open Water course, had to do their training dives. Off said that I had picked it up really easily and if I wanted to, I could join them on the next dive, going to 14 meters. Did I want to?!!! ummmm YES! So for an extra 1000 baht ($40nzd), we dived for about 50 minutes. Apart from a few equalizing issues going down, it was great - it's a whole new world down there. Now I need to get my Open Water License to be able to dive anywhere else.....watch this space.

Photos to follow...didin't have the camera with me so I am relying on others from the boat trip to email them to me :)