This area is famous for its diving sites and water clarity.
Finding this out, there was nothing else I could've done than to scuba dive. That's right: SCUBA DIVE!
I've had countless dreams of swimming through the water, needing a breath, taking a breath, and being surprised I could breathe underwater, and continued to until I woke up.. imagine this but having never needing to fall asleep, and even better, never having to wake up.
It was actually even better than a dream. I was weightless for 45 minutes as I navigated with our instructor and two others through canyons of reef, colorfully freckled with strange filter plants situated in narrow spouts on top of living reef. When you'd push water toward them, the yellow, blue, purple, red, green, and bright orange 'things' would recoil into the coral, only to appear moments later, sometimes waiting hours to enchant the eyes of another diver.
The experience was life-changing, AND it let me know another hobby I will begin to enjoy for the rest of my life.
The instructor took about 1 hour+ to teach us the guidlines and then another hour to learn underwatyer technique, and then we were off. There is a certification course, which I was tempted to take, and if I had another week here I would enroll immediately. But we're heading off tomorrow afternoon to Bangkok.. so it may have to wait until another place, or just another time.
So that was only the beginning of the day! The rest of the day was spent waterside and hanging out with the Angentinian ladies, with whom Kristen and I have grown quite enamoured. It was a great last night in Koh Tao, and we're sad to leave it behind, but I'm leaving knowing there is more adventures to be had in Bangkok and even more in Argentina, now that I have places to stay when I travel there.. STOKED.
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